A sharp satirical work that, in a caricatured form, portrays American society at the very beginning of the 21st century.
Malik Solenka, Cambridge-educated and—after many years lecturing—now holding the status of professor, became a rich man by the will of the Indian goddess Saraswati, patron of the arts of science and rhetoric. Solenka’s fate in his new place turned out to be somewhat convoluted, but not disastrous: the man’s underwent a metamorphosis. From a philosophy professor he transformed into a television magnate…