Trurl

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

also known as his lordship Trurl, Trurl the highborn, Trurl the illustrious constructor, Sir Constructor, Your Excellency, Your Exalted Person, Your Resplendent Grace, Your Constructorship, Your Esteemed Effulgence, Earl of Otes, good foreigner

Constructor and protagonist

A brilliant engineer who is unexpectedly recruited by an electroknight to cure Prince Pantagoon's lovesickness, ultimately resorting to a baby-bombardment strategy to force a royal marriage.

In The Fourth Sally or How Trurl Built a Femfatalatron (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.

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