Stanislas Lem

Biography

Wire of a Doctor Oto-rhino-laryngologist (ORL), Stanislas Lem sees his studies of Médecine to the Université of Lwów stopped by the Second world war. He works then like mechanic and welder, and takes share with the resistance against the German . At the conclusion of the war, the Red Army occupies the Poland and the Soviet Union control the country.

In 1946, Lem resumes the studies of Médecine to the Université Jagellonne of Cracow. To avoid a career of Army medical officer, it does not pass its last examinations and obtains only one certificate of end of study. Research assistant of a scientific institution, it writes his first stories during his spare time. In 1981, it receives an honorary diploma of the Polytechnic school of Wrocław. Later, the University of Opole, that of Léopol and finally of Jagellone make in the same way.

Stanislas Lem written on incommunicability enters the human ones and civilizations Extraterrestre S, and on the technological future of the Humanité. He develops ideas on an ideal company and utopian and explores the problems involved in the existence of the man in worlds where the technological advancement removes any human effort. Its companies Extra-terrestre S put in scene Essaim S of Mouche S mechanics ( Invincible the ) or the thinking Océan ( Solaris ). Technological Utopias appear in Pokoj Na Ziemi ( Peace one Earth ) or in Cybériade .

Lem is a partisan of civilization Occident ale. In spite of the censure inherent in the mode Marxist-Leninist in which he lived, his work contains a severe critic of the collectivism.

Lem is established honorary member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers off America (SFWA) in 1973. The SFWA cancels this decision in 1976 after criticisms of Lem against the Science-fiction bottom-of-the-range American, but proposes to him however an ordinary adhesion, which he refuses. It describes this literature like Kitsch, poorly written and more interested by profitability than by the ideas or new literary forms. Of all the American authors of Science fiction, he addresses frank praises only to Philip K. Dick.

Patient for a long time, Stanislas Lem is deceased with the Hôpital of Cracow of a Heart attack on Monday, March 27, 2006.

Works

This section contains a selection of works translated into French. The dates of first edition Polish E differ according to the sources, this very often comes from inaccuracies on the level of the number of the edition used for the Traduction.

1954 : Fire Venus ( Astronauci )
1959: Eden ( Eden )
1961: Memories found in a bath-tub ( Pamiętnik znaleziony W wannie )
1961: Return of the stars ( Powrót Z gwiazd )
1961: Solaris ( Solaris )
1964: stainless Tales ( Bajki robotów )
1964: Invincible the ( Niezwyciężony ) - Presses Pocket Science fiction N°5010, 1977
1965: Cybériade ( Cyberiada )
1968: the Voice of the Master ( Głos breaded )
1971: the Congress of futurology ( Kongres futurologiczny )
1971: Memories of Ijon Tichy ( Dzienniki gwiazdowe , ED. No 4, collection of New S humorous)
1976: electric Voyages of Ijon Tichy ( Dzienniki gwiazdowe , collection of humorous news)
1976: the Cold ( Katar )
1987: Fiasco ( Fiasko )
the Mask ( Maska )
the Breviary of the robots - Presence of the future
New Adventures of Ijon Tichy
Library of the 21e century ( Biblioteka XXI wieku )

See too

alphabetical List Polish writers

External bonds

Critical Official site
of '' Solaris ''
Article in '' Wired '' on Lem and '' Solaris ''
Lem on '' The Modern Word ''
Discussion with Stanislas Lem
Biography and Bibliographie

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