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Sep 1, 2014 · Abstract. In Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel, Peter Swirski brings a treasury of unknown elements of Lem's life and literary legacy to light.The Polish science fiction writer died in 2006, but in this book his voice is heard afresh for the benefit of those who believe that, with his passing, quintessential element of twentieth-century artistic and intellectual heritage has ...
That was the case with the publication in 1985 of Richard Ziegfeld's monograph, Stanislaw Lem--the first English volume of interpretation and criticism of the great Bio-Prophet, which received attention in a review aptly entitled "How Not to Write a Book on Lem" (SFS #40, Nov 1986). The comparison between that first study and Madison Davis's 1990 Starmont monograph is unavoidable.
His books are: A Stanislaw Lem Reader (1997); Between Literature and Science: Poe and Lem (2000); From Lowbrow to Nobrow (2005); The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem (2006), All Roads Lead to the American City (2007); Of Literature and Knowledge (2007); I Sing the Body Politic (2009); Literature, Analytically Speaking (2010); Ars Americana, Ars ...
To add more books, click here . Peter Swirski has 18 books on Goodreads with 858 ratings. Peter Swirski’s most popular book is A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Rethinking Theory).
Oct 10, 2019 · Concluding remarks: Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future is absorbing enough as a stand-alone work that I decided to review it (above) in a kind of 'artificial vacuum,' but in fact it has a rich context of other works by Swirski that span the period 1992-2014; see pp. 194-195 for the list.
STANISLAW LEM: “Peter Swirski, a brilliant literary critic and a superb translator, deserves wide recognition as a scholar in American and Polish literatures”. MICHAEL KANDEL: "Peter Swirski's book is impressive: it demonstrates a grasp of a very large body of knowledge--Stanislaw Lem, his work, his life, his ideas about humanity, society, and science.
For a list of works of Lem, see List of works by Stanisław Lem and their adaptations. This bibliography of Stanisław Lem is a list of works about Stanisław Lem, a Polish science fiction writer and essayist. In addition to books and numerous academic articles, Lem's works and ideas have been a subject of a number of Ph.D. and master theses.
