Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia and The Key to Heaven

Download or read book Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia and The Key to Heaven written by Leszek Kołakowski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-10-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains two unusual and appealing satirical works by the well-known European philosopher Kolakowski. The first, Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia, is set in a fictional land. Each story illustrates some aspect of human inability to come to terms with imperfection, infinitude, history, and nature. The second, The Key to Heaven, is a collection of seventeen biblical tales from the Old Testament told in such a way that the story and the moral play off each other to illustrate political, moral, or existential foibles and follies.