SOURCE: “Epistemological Chagrin: The Literary and Philosophical Antecedents of Stanislaw Lem's Romantic Misanthrope,” in Extrapolation, Vol. 35, No. 4, Winter, 1994, pp. 319–29.
In the following essay, Cheever examines Lem's skeptical attitude toward the problem of human knowledge in His Master's Voice and the protagonist's “feeling of embarrassment rather than despair in light of mankind's limitations.”
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