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by Stanisław Lem

86 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Stanisław Lem (staˈɲiswaf lɛm) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer of Jewish descent. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world.

His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of his works are difficult and multiple translated versions of his works exist.

Lem became truly productive after 1956, when the de-Stalinization period led to the "Polish October", when Poland experienced an increase in freedom of speech. Between 1956 and 1968, Lem authored 17 books. His works were widely translated abroad (although mostly in the Eastern Bloc countries). In 1957 he published his first non-fiction, philosophical book, Dialogi (Dialogues), one of his two most famous philosophical texts along with Summa Technologiae (1964). The Summa is notable for being a unique analysis of prospective social, cybernetic, and biological advances. In this work, Lem discusses philosophical implications of technologies that were completely in the realm of science fiction then, but are gaining importance today—like, for instance, virtual reality and nanotechnology. Over the next few decades, he published many books, both science fiction and philosophical/futurological, although from the 1980s onwards he tended to concentrate on philosophical texts and essays.

He gained international fame for The Cyberiad, a series of humorous short stories from a mechanical universe ruled by robots, first published in English in 1974. His best-known novels include Solaris (1961), His Master's Voice (Głos pana, 1968), and the late Fiasco (Fiasko, 1987), expressing most strongly his major theme of the futility of mankind's attempts to comprehend the truly alien. Solaris was made into a film in 1972 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972; in 2002, Steven Soderbergh directed a Hollywood remake starring George Clooney.

He was the cousin of poet Marian Hemar.

Reviews

[agatatoczyta]

Dyktanda w oparach absurdu. Kilka zabawnych perełek, wiele tekstów bez ładu i składu i również bez specjalnej ortograficznej trudności. Przeczytanie tego w całości było interesującym doświadczeniem z pogranicza kabaretu i performensu artystycznego. Ta pozycja mogłaby być interesującym materiałem dydaktycznym dla obcokrajowców uczących się czytać po polsku ;).

[dot. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mierne to bardzo. Jako dyktanda jak najbardziej się sprawdzi, ale czytać dla rozrywki się tego nie da.
Poza tym rzecz powinna zostać mocno zredagowana, bo momentami wieje rasizmem i seksizmem lat minionych, aż przykro. Niedoczytane, żal mi czasu.

[Adi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nie miałem oczekiwań przed przeczytaniem tej książki, byłem po prostu jej ciekaw ale nie tego się spodziewałem. Humor raczej dla dorosłych, a co do trudności ortograficznych to też nie były one jakoś spore, było za to trochę słownictwa obecnie sporadycznie używanego.

[Regulus☪️Black♏ · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5

[Jagoda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pozycja obowiązkowa dla fanów makabrycznego, absurdalnego humoru. Do przeczytania w godzinę - byle nie w nocy, by nie budzić śmiechem sąsiadów ;)