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Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel

Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel

Lem, Stanislaw
Swirski, Peter

Hardcover

Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, Book 46

Literary FiguresLetters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

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ISBN10: 1781380171
ISBN13: 9781781380178
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jul 31 2014
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Stanislaw Lem died on 26 March, 2006 but in this book his voice can be heard afresh for the benefit of all those who believe that, with his passing, a quintessential element of twentieth-century artistic and intellectual heritage has come to an end.

Peter Swirski's edited and annotated translation of Lem's fifteen-year correspondence with his principal American translator offers an unparalleled testimony to the raw intellectual powers, smouldering literary passions, and abiding personal concerns from the central period of the writer's life and career. Even as they reposition Lem as a consummate litterateur and an intellectual oracle, the letters reveal tantalizing glimpses of the man behind the giant. Fighting depression, at times hitting the bottle, plagued by ill health, obsessed by his legacy, driven to distraction by lack of appreciation in the United States, Lem the arch-rationalist emerges here at his most human, vulnerable, and... likeable.

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