That was simply Janusz Wilhelmi, then in charge of Polish culture. In "His Master's Voice", which is not at all a humorous story, there is a CIA agent, Wilhelm Eeney, who supervises American scientists. It's interesting that this was rarely recognized.
Gengenx from "Wizja lokalna" is Friedrich Engels. That is the source of numerous failures of my heroes on the path of improvement of the world, what always ended very bad. Naturally, I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me. On the other hand, I always tried to be as independent, as possible. If you would try to analyze my books according to the appropriate political period - the Stalin's frost or the Krustschev's softening thaw - you would most certainly find some corelations. That made it easier to publish the story.
For example, when I wrote a story of the first frozen person in "Edukacja Cyfrania" - about an orchestra, whose members are being eaten alive one by one by a cruel Goryllium, but everybody pretends not to notice anything - I had to cover it in a disguise of inseriousness, and add a story of the second frozen person, which had no political hidden meanings. On the other hand, most of my works were written under communism and I had to acknowledge the existence of censorship. In order to present those crazy situations, I had to create a pattern of levity. Human irresponsibility will lead us to crazy situations. Nevertheless I had such a feeling, that when mankind will attain control over human genetics, wild things of that kind will happen. When I was writing that, there were no punks, nobody had a Mohawk haircut, young men did not paint their faces. All those sketches of weird skeletons I drew in the "Star Diaries" were intended to make this subject less horrible. First, some topics were unsuitable for serious treatment, such as questions of genetics. Stanisław Lem: I was using humour for various reasons. It's amazing, how rarely they are analyzed from this point of view. Wojciech Orliński: Your books display not only your outstanding knowledge and imagination, but also a great sense of humour.
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