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May 11, 2024 · Stanislaw Lem asks many questions but practically gives no answers. He creates a crime story that is on one hand overly realistic – listening to the conversations of the policemen, we feel as though we’ve been given the entire case documentation, all the facts, theories, and suspicions, and like Gregory, we’re trapped in the necessity of solving the mystery; on the other hand, the writer ...
May 12, 2024 · Stanislaw Lem was triumphing at the end of the 1950s with the adventures of Ijon Tichy in The Star Diaries, and he had already published The Magellanic Cloud and Eden, with Return from the Stars and Solaris to follow in a few years. A well-known name in a joint, pioneering, socialist film production was an additional advantage.
May 13, 2024 · This happened because Lem didn’t like the vision of the Soviet director. As he claimed – Tarkovsky didn’t shoot Solaris, but Crime and Punishment.Many years later, when the American adaptation starring George Clooney was made, the Polish writer stated that he definitely prefers it over the Soviet version, although he noted that none of the directors who took on the novel managed to ...
Roughly 3 minutes ago I had a totally spontaneous theory on the Quintans form Lem's "Fiasco". (I was listening to John Michael Godier's recent podcast on cosmic voids, not thematically related. Sorry for drifting away John!). As you might know, the quintans are revealed to be non-moving, fungi-like organisms at the end of the novel.
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May 25, 2024 · A 1989 New Journal report about Stanislaw (or Konstantin) Kulikowski. “Stanley the tramp has made his home a tiny alcove next to the tube station, a Camden landmark for the past few years. “It now stands empty while the 68-year-old Polish ‘Gentleman of the road’ undergoes treatment for malnutrition at UCH. “Stanley Kulikowski may have ...
6 days ago · A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, of a civilization superior of our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past." -Snow from Solaris by Stanislaw Lem” ― Stanislaw Lem
