Klapaucius

Role, aliases, and summary hidden by structure-only view.

Constructor, deuteragonist/trickster

Robot constructor who receives the wish-granting machine, uses it to manufacture a duplicate of Trurl, beats it savagely while maintaining plausible deniability, outmaneuvers Trurl's humiliation through social cunning, and ends the story furious at being denied credit.

In A Good Shellacking (Stanislaw Lem, 1965)

Possibly the same character

Same author, same name, in other works — cross-work identity is not asserted here, only suggested. Nartopo tracks character identity per work; these are separate pages that may or may not depict the same character.

Klapaucius in Altruizine or A True Account of How Bonhomius the Hermetic Hermit Tried to Bring About Universal Happiness (1965)
Klapaucius in How the World Was Saved (1965)
Klapaucius in Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius (1965)
Klapaucius in The Cyberiad (1965)
Klapaucius in The Fifth Sally or The Mischief of King Balerion (1965)
Klapaucius in The First Sally (A) or Trurl's Electronic Bard (1965)
Klapaucius in The First Sally or The Trap of Gargantius (1965)
Klapaucius in The Second Sally or The Offer of King Krool (1965)
Klapaucius in The Seventh Sally or How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good (1965)
Klapaucius in The Sixth Sally or How Trurl and Klapaucius Created a Demon (1965)
Klapaucius in The Third Sally or The Dragons of Probability (1965)
Klapaucius in Trurl's Machine (1965)