A Stanislaw LEM Reader

By: Peter Swirski

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081011495X
• ISBN13: 9780810114951
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"