A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Rethinking Theory) - Softcover

Peter Swirski

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081011495X ISBN 13: 9780810114951

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Polish-born Lem is one of the best-selling unknown writers of science fiction in the US. This collection assembles in-depth and insightful writings by and about, as well as interviews with, Lem. Two interviews are separated by Lem's own 1991 essay in which he surveys in detail 30 years of his earlier work, much of which has never been translated into English. Readers interested in Lem's provocative and uncompromising view of literature's role in the contemporary cultural environment, and in Lem's opinions about his own fiction, about the relation of literature to science and technology, and the dead ends of contemporary culture, will be fascinated by this eclectic collection.
 

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About the Author

Peter Swirski is a Canadian scholar and literary critic featured in Canadian Who's Who. He is also Amazon's #1 Bestseller in American Literary Criticism and in Canadian Literary Criticism. Specialist in American literature and American Studies, he is the world's foremost scholar on Stanislaw Lem and author of fifteen award-winning books, including including From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin (2013); Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel (2014); Lemography (2014), and Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future (2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081011495X
• ISBN 13: 9780810114951
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 131