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by Stanisław Lem
About 43 pages (13,019 words)
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Solaris Study Guide consists of approx. 43 pages of summaries and analysis on Solaris by Stanisław Lem. Browse the literature study guide below:

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Solaris is set in a future time of interplanetary travel. Kris Kelvin is a Solarist, a scientist who studies the planet Solaris, and his specialty is psychology. Kelvin travels to Solaris, only to find that the planet's mysterious ocean has begun bringing to life precise duplicates of figures from the deepest recesses of the scientists' minds. (read more)
      Chapter 1, The Arrival
      Chapter 2, The Solarists
      Chapter 3, The Visitors
      Chapter 4, Sartorius
      Chapter 5, Rheya
      Chapter 6, The Little Apocrypha
      Chapter 7, The Conference
      Chapter 8, The Monsters
      Chapter 9, The Liquid Oxygen
      Chapter 10, Conversation
      Chapter 11, The Thinkers
      Chapter 12, The Dreams
      Chapter 13, Victory
      Chapter 14, The Old Mimoid

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