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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Lem, Stanistaw.
His master's voice.
Translation of: Glos pana.
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book."
I. Title.
PC7158.L39G613 1984 891.8'537 83-18467
ISBN 0-15-640300-5

Printed in the United States of America
First Harvest/HBJ edition 1984

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Editor's Note

The manuscript was found among the papers of the late Professor Peter E.
Hogarth. That great mind, alas, was unable to put it into final form, though
he had labored long over it. The illness that claimed him made the book's
completion impossible. Because the deceased was reluctant to speak of the work
-- a work unusual for him, and undertaken more out of a sense of duty than by
choice -- and reluctant, even, to speak of it to those near him, in whose
number I am honored to have been included -- certain obscurities and points of
contention arose during the preliminary efforts to prepare the manuscript for
publication. I must state, to be truthful, that in the circle of those who
were made acquainted with the text there were voices raised in opposition to
its publication: they claimed that such was not the intention of the deceased.
There is to be found, however, no written testimony of his to this effect; one
can only conclude that such opinions are without foundation. It was obvious,
on the other hand, that the thing was unfinished, for it had no title, and one
particular fragment existed only in a rough draft, which fragment was to have
served -- and here lies one of the principal doubts -- as either a preface or
an afterword to the book.
As friend and colleague of the deceased, and mentioned by him in his