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Solaris
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It is unfortunate that Lem is labeled as an author of "science fiction", but really only because of what the american traditions for that genre have imprinted on our culture. Solaris is a deeply philosophical look at the notion of "otherness", a meditation on the hard limits at the edges of human cognition, and science's inability to look outside of problems that science can describe.
Read this book instead of watching either of the films derived from it. Tarkovsky's Solaris is brilliant for it's own reasons, but it misses the deep meditation on science that makes Lem's work so interesting. That other guy's version of Solaris is well worth forgetting.
Read this book instead of watching either of the films derived from it. Tarkovsky's Solaris is brilliant for it's own reasons, but it misses the deep meditation on science that makes Lem's work so interesting. That other guy's version of Solaris is well worth forgetting.
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True indeed!
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"Science Fiction" is attributed to any book that fits that genre--"Literature" is attributed to any book that reaches that level of quality. The two sets may coincide, and often do.
Anna Sheridan You say "read this book". I'd add - read this book in 2011 Bill Johnston translation. The old 1970 translation is very poor. I am a native Polish speaker. Lem is very hard to translate well. Johnston did an excellent job.
