Title: Solaris (LIT,HTML,DOC) Author(s): Stanislaw Lem Pages: 214 Publisher: Publication date: 1961 Language: English Format: LIT, HTML, DOC ISBN-10: 0156027607 ISBN-13: Description: List:
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Book by Stanislaw Lem (1961).
Translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox (1970)
Who's testing whom? When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. Scientists speculate that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, its purpose in doing so unknown.
The first of Lem's novels to be published in America and now considered a classic, SOLARIS raises a question: Can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?
Stanislaw Lem (September 12, 1921 - March 27, 2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies[1]. At one point, he was the most widely read non-English-language science fiction author in the world.[2].
His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction, to avoid both trappings of academic life and limitations of readership and scientific style, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of his works are difficult; Michael Kandel's translations into English have generally been praised as capturing the spirit of the original.
Title: Solaris (LIT,HTML,DOC)