Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781781380178)

Stanislaw Lem died on 26 March, 2006. No one can literally bring back his mortal engine to life. But 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.


Author: Stanislaw Lem
ISBN-10: 1781380171
ISBN-13: 9781781380178
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2014
Pages: 170
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.60d

About the Author

Stanislaw Lem was the internationally acclaimed author of many books, and has been cited as the most widely read science fiction writer in the world. Peter Swirski is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.