In Hot Pursuit of Happiness
translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel
A late tale of Trurl and Klapaucius — the constructors — undertaking the most dangerous commission of their careers: to engineer happiness itself. Read it as Lem wrote it, or as a panel-by-panel graphic-novel adaptation.
About this site
In Hot Pursuit of Happiness — original Polish title Kobyszczę — is a story of the constructors Trurl and Klapaucius by Stanisław Lem. It belongs to the Polish Cyberiada (from the 1972 edition onward) but was not included in Michael Kandel’s English Cyberiad (1974); Kandel’s English translation first appeared in the 1973 anthology View from Another Shore (ed. Franz Rottensteiner).
Directed and edited by Yaniv Golan. Prompts, balloon authoring, and build pipeline written by Claude Code (Anthropic) under Yaniv’s direction. Panel artwork rendered by OpenAI’s gpt-image-2.
Visual register in homage to — but not in the style of — Daniel Mróz, whose ink illustrations for the Polish Cyberiada are inseparable from the book in the minds of its readers.