Fiasco Read By Stanisław Lem
| Title | : | Fiasco |
| Author | : | Stanisław Lem |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 322 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0156306301 |
The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb like network It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge seeking Earth As they approach Quinta, a dark poetry takes over and leads them into a nightmare of misunderstanding Translated by Michael Kandel.The The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb like network It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge seeking Earth As they approach Quinta, a dark poetry takes over and leads them into a nightmare of misunderstanding Translated by Michael Kandel.The novel was published in German translation translated by H Schumann in 1986 The Polish text published in 1987, the English translation by M Kandel the same year
about Author
Stanis aw Lem sta iswaf l m was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer of Jewish descent His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the w Stanis aw Lem sta iswaf l m was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer of Jewish descent His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world.His works explore philosophical themes speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind s place in the universe They are sometimes presented as fiction, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books Translations of his works are difficult and multiple translated versions of his works exist.Lem became truly productive after 1956, when the de Stalinization period led to the Polish October , when Poland experienced an increase in freedom of speech Between 1956 and 1968, Lem authored 17 books His works were widely translated abroad although mostly in the Eastern Bloc countries In 1957 he published his first non fiction, philosophical book, Dialogi Dialogues , one of his two most famous philosophical texts along with Summa Technologiae 1964 The Summa is notable for being a unique analysis of prospective social, cybernetic, and biological advances In this work, Lem discusses philosophical implications of technologies that were completely in the realm of science fiction then, but are gaining importance today like, for instance, virtual reality and nanotechnology Over the next few decades, he published many books, both science fiction and philosophical futurological, although from the 1980s onwards he tended to concentrate on philosophical texts and essays.He gained international fame for The Cyberiad, a series of humorous short stories from a mechanical universe ruled by robots, first published in English in 1974 His best known novels include Solaris 1961 , His Master s Voice G os pana, 1968 , and the late Fiasco Fiasko, 1987 , expressing most strongly his major theme of the futility of mankind s attempts to comprehend the truly alien Solaris was made into a film in 1972 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972 in 2002, Steven Soderbergh directed a Hollywood remake starring George Clooney.He was the cousin of poet Marian Hemar 
Solaris
The Cyberiad
The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
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The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb like network It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness In
322 pagesStanisław Lem
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