The World at the Edge
At the end of the last century and on the threshold of the new millennium, Stanislaw Lem talks with Tomasz Fialkowski - literary critic, journalist, deputy editor of the weekly "Tygodnik Powszechny".
Once again, Stanislaw Lem succeeds in surprising and captivating the reader in this uncompromising dialogue. He is penetrating, ruthless in his treatment of ignorance, decisively against evil, and distanced in the face of his own and humankind's weaknesses. The author of Solaris talks fascinatingly, with the eloquence and ironical distance unique to him, of the subjects which interest him, which influenced his work and shaped his literary imagination.
Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Lem (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 been sold in over 27 million copies. At one point, he was the most widely read non-English-language science fiction author 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, to avoid both trappings of academic life and limitations of readership and scientific style, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of his works are difficult; Michael Kandel's translations into English have generally been praised as capturing the spirit of the original.
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