Title: Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 46)
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1781380171
ISBN 13: 9781781380178
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Weight: 1000 grams

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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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STANISLAW LEM (1921-2006) was the internationally acclaimed writer, philosopher, futurologist, and author of many books, who has been cited as the most widely read science fiction writer in the world.

PETER SWIRSKI is a Canadian scholar and literary critic featured in Canadian Who's Who. He is also Amazon's #1 Bestseller in Canadian Literary Criticism and in American 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 A Stanislaw Lem Reader; The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem; From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin; Lemography, and Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future.

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