Further Reminiscences Of Ijon Tichy Summary

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In the story “Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy,” Stanislaw Lem presented an obsessive professor Decantor, who had invented the soul, a chance to live in eternity, and was trying to pursue Mr. Tichy to invest in him. The professor believed that everything he was doing for the mankind’s and it was right to do so even if it required killing someone. In his development of the soul, he had spent forty-eight years of his life, spent all of his money, and even killed his wife, but still, he didn’t feel that he was wrong. According to him, by killing his wife, he gave her “eternal life” (60). Tichy listened to him. Even though, he knew that the professor was mad and out of his mind, he still wanted to hear his explanations and was feeling bad for