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Stanisław Herman Lem ( Polish: [staˈɲiswaf ˈlɛm] ⓘ; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of novels, short stories and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character.
callendarium. f Share. 1921. Stanislaw Lem was born in Lwow, Poland (presently Lviv, Ukraine) to a family of a wealthy laryngologist. 1932. starts education at the II K. Szajnocha State Grammar School in Lwow. 1939. obtains secondary school certificate. 1940-41.
Stanisław Lem. (1921-2006) one of the greatest contemporary writers—„a virtuoso storyteller” according to the „New York Times”, whose books „convey the sense of a mind hovering above the boundaries of the human condition.”. While most of his works bear the broad „science fiction” label he was a master of a number of genres ...
Feb 27, 2024 · As a young man in Poland, Lem worked as an auto mechanic at a Nazi-run waste-sorting company, wrote poems for a Catholic weekly, and attended medical school but chose to not graduate (to avoid...
Aug 11, 2021 · Throughout a career spanning six decades that produced more translated works than any other Polish writer, he adopted the viewpoints of aliens, robots, a conscious supercomputer and a sentient ...
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Mar 27, 2006 · The Booker Library. Authors. Stanislaw Lem. Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology and literary criticism. In 1976 ,Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world.
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Sep 28, 2021 · By Stanislaw Lem Translated by Peter Butko 348 pp. The MIT Press. $39.95. Follow New York Times Books on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, sign up for our newsletter or our literary calendar.