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Rozmowy Ze Stanisławem Lemem
''Rozmowy ze Stanisławem Lemem'' (literal translation: ''Conversations with Stanisław Lem'') is a book-length interview of Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem conducted by literary critic and historian Stanisław Bereś in 1981–1982 and published in book format in 1987. The second, more comprehensive edition was published in 2002 under the title ''Tako rzecze... Lem'' (''Thus Spoke... Lem'')."Thus Spoke Lem" at Lem's official website. The German-language, uncensored version, ''Also sprach Lem'', was published earlier, in 1986.The title is an allusion to ''''. Lem's 1981 book '' |
Stanisław Bereś
Stanisław Bereś (born 4 May 1950) is a Polish poet, literary critic, translator and literary historian."Stanisław Bereś" (retrieved November 16, 2015) /ref> He is professor at the , both at the Institute of Polish Philology and the Department of Journalism and Social Communication. In 1987-1993 he taught at the in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the Northeastern United States to California. The hijackers crashed the first two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and the third plane into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States military) in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane was intended to hit a federal government building in Washington, D.C., but crashed in a field following a passenger revolt. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and instigated the war on terror. The first impact was that of American Airlines Flight 11. It was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan at 8:46 a.m. Seventeen minutes later, at 9:03, the World Trade Center’s S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books Of Interviews
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is '' codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Works By Stanisław Lem
Works may refer to: People * Caddy Works (1896–1982), American college sports coach * Samuel Works (c. 1781–1868), New York politician Albums * '' ''Works'' (Pink Floyd album)'', a Pink Floyd album from 1983 * ''Works'', a Gary Burton album from 1972 * ''Works'', a Status Quo album from 1983 * ''Works'', a John Abercrombie album from 1991 * ''Works'', a Pat Metheny album from 1994 * ''Works'', an Alan Parson Project album from 2002 * ''Works Volume 1'', a 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer album * ''Works Volume 2'', a 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer album * '' The Works'', a 1984 Queen album Other uses * Microsoft Works, a collection of office productivity programs created by Microsoft * IBM Works, an office suite for the IBM OS/2 operating system * Mount Works, Victoria Land, Antarctica See also * The Works (other) * Work (other) Work may refer to: * Work (human activity), intentional activity people perform to support themselves, others, or the communit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Non-fiction Books
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Bibliography Of Stanisław Lem
:''This is a list of works about Lem. 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. Books about Lem * 2021: Lech Keller, ''Stanisław Lem w PRL-u czyli niewygodna prawda w zwiększonej objętości - Stanisław Lem in the People's Republic of Poland, or the Inconvenient Truth in an Enlarged Volume)'' - Acta Polonica Monashiensis (Monash University: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) Volume 5 Number 1 - The inconvenient truth that Stanisław Lem was for a long time the 'pet' of the communist regime * 2021: Lech Keller, ''Lem Little Known '' - Acta Polonica Monashiensis (Monash University: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) Volume 4 Number 1 - Biography of Lem in EnglisLEM LITTLE KNOWN*2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction And Fantasy In Poland
Science fiction and fantasy in Poland dates to the late 18th century. During the latter years of the People's Republic of Poland, a very popular genre of science fiction was social science fiction. Later, many other genres gained prominence. Poland has many :Polish science fiction writers, science-fiction writers. Internationally, the best known Polish science-fiction writer is the late Stanisław Lem. As elsewhere, Polish science fiction is closely related to the genres of fantasy, Horror fiction, horror and others. While many English language, English-language writers have been translated into Polish, relatively little Polish language, Polish-language science fiction (or fantasy) has been translated into English. History Science fiction in Poland started in the late 18th century during the Enlightenment in Poland, Polish Enlightenment, when Michał Dymitr Krajewski wrote a novel about the adventures of a Pole on the Moon. In the mid-19th century, during the age of romantici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrzej Sapkowski
Andrzej Sapkowski (; born 21 June 1948) is a Polish fantasy writer, essayist, translator and a trained economist. He is best known for his six-volume series of books ''The Witcher'', which revolves around the eponymous "witcher," a monster-hunter, Geralt of Rivia. It began with the publication of ''Blood of Elves'' (1994) and was completed with the publication of standalone prequel novel ''Season of Storms'' (2013). The saga has been popularised through television, cinema, stage, comic books, computer games and translated into 37 languages making him the second most-translated Polish science fiction and fantasy writer after Stanisław Lem. He was born in Łódź and initially pursued a career as an economist after graduating from the University of Łódź. He turned to writing, first as a translator and later as an author of fantasy books, following the success of his first short story ''The Witcher'' published in 1986 in the ''Fantastyka'' magazine. Described as the "Polish To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historia I Fantastyka
''Historia i fantastyka'' (lit. The History and The Fantasy) is a book-length interview of Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski conducted and published in book format by Stanisław Bereś in 2005. The book has been compared to a prior book-length interview Bereś carried out with Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem in the 1980s (expanded 2002 edition: '' Thus Spoke... Lem'', Polish title ''Tako rzecze... Lem''). Wojciech Orliński in his review of ''Historia i fantastyka'' notes that it allows a comparison on how Polish science fiction and fantasy Science fiction and fantasy in Poland dates to the late 18th century. During the latter years of the People's Republic of Poland, a very popular genre of science fiction was social science fiction. Later, many other genres gained prominence. Po ... has changed over those two decades. In the book, Sapkowski and Bereś discuss not only Sapkowski's works and inspirations, but his views on politics, military and pacifism, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Stanislaw Lem Reader
''A Stanislaw Lem Reader'' is a collection of writings by and about Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem, one of the world's most widely read science-fiction writers. The book comprises an introduction by Canadian literary scholar Peter Swirski, two interviews by Swirski with Lem, and Swirski's translation of Lem's essay, "30 Years Later". Contents The book is described as an "eclectic collection" on its back cover. It begins with Swirski's introduction titled "Stanislaw Lem: A Stranger in a Strange Land", an overview of Lem's literary work. The title is an allusion to Robert Heinlein's ''Stranger in a Strange Land'', stressing the uniqueness of Lem's original perceptions of the contemporary civilization, his aesthetics and philosophy. Peter Butko described this overview as "condensed and insightful". The second item is "Reflections on Literature, Philosophy, and Science", a personal interview of Swirski with Lem carried out in 1992, mostly focused on Lem's views o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Swirski
Peter Swirski is a Canadian scholar and literary critic featured in '' Canadian Who's Who''. As a specialist in American literature and American Studies, he is the author of many books, including the prize-winning ''Ars Americana, Ars Politica'' (2010) and the staple of American popular culture studies '' From Lowbrow to Nobrow'' (2005). His other studies include ''American Utopia and Social Engineering'' (2011), ''American Political Fictions'' (2015), ''American Utopia: Literature, Society, and the Human Use of Human Beings'' (2020, Routledge textbook), and the digital-futurological bestseller ''From Literature to Biterature'' (2013). He is also the leading scholar on the late writer and philosopher Stanisław Lem. Life and career Peter Swirski is distinguished visiting professor and honorary professor at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. Formerly he was a professor and research director at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in Finland, Distinguished Professor of Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Orliński
Wojciech Orliński (born 24 January 1969 in Warsaw) is a Polish journalist, writer, and blogger. Between 1997 and 2021 he was a regular columnist for Gazeta Wyborcza. He has written several books, including an alternate history novel, an encyclopaedic guide to Stanisław Lem (''Co to są sepulki?''), a biography of Stanisław Lem, three travel books and an essay on dangers connected with the development of the Internet. He has also published science-fiction stories and opinion pieces in Nowa Fantastyka. Works Books * ''Co to są sepulki? Wszystko o Lemie'' (2007) – a book about Stanisław Lem **In 2012 an interactive version of the book was released for iPad under the title "Lemologia, czyli co to są sepulki?" * Mark Barber – ''Urban Legends'' (RM 2007) – preface to the Polish edition and a chapter about Polish urban legends * ''Ameryka nie istnieje'' (Pascal, 2010) – a book describing the author's journey across the US. * ''Internet. Czas się bać'' (Agora 2013) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
