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Stanisław Lem Information
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 Stanisław Lem (pronunciation (help·info), September 12, 1921 – March 27, 2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies.[1] In 1976,...


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Stanisław Lem Quotes
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 Stanisław Lem ( 12 September 1921 - 27 March 2006 ) Polish satirical, philosophical, and science fiction writer. See also : Solaris Contents 1 Wikipedia 2 Sourced 2.1 Solaris (1961) 2.2 The Cyberiad (1967) 2.2.1 Love and Tensor Algebra 2.3 On...



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 The Village Voice
Lemming
05/17/2006: 466 words, approx. 2 pages Lemming Directed by Dominik Moll Strand, opens May 19 Domestic Violence Guess who's coming to dinner?Your boss's unstable wife and a host of hauntings Exhilaratingly anxious, Dominik Moll's new film Lemming charts familiar territory but does it with gravity...
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 The Boston Globe
The Lem Chronicles
12/15/2002: 1,740 words, approx. 6 pages LIKE MANY CREATORS OF science fiction, the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is fascinated by what will happen when humanity makes its "first contact" with an intelligent alien life form. In novels such as "Solaris" (1961) and "His Master's Voice" (1968), Lem suggests that the...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Marilyn Jurich
13,035 words, approx. 44 pages
 In the following essay, Jurich examines the presentation of “pseudo-utopias” in Lem's fiction. Jurich holds that Lem reveals the insidious oppression and self-destruction inherent in false promises of ideal social order and scientifically engineered freedom through his depiction of pseudo-utopias.
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Critical Essay by Peter Swirski
10,685 words, approx. 36 pages
 In the following essay, Swirski applies game theory analysis to Lem's Memoirs Found in a Bathtub in order to describe the insanity and paranoia that conditions military strategy, political ideology, and group rationality.
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Interview by Stanisław Lem with Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.
9,902 words, approx. 33 pages
 In the following interview, originally conducted in May 1985, Lem discusses his approach to discursive and fictional writing, his literary and philosophical influences, and the problem of art and speculative philosophy in an age dominated by science and technology.


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