Frustrated doctor Stanislaw Lem Bashny.Net

"Civilization create idiots, and the remaining clear up the mess mess»
Stanislaw Lem, author of the novel "Solaris" and one of the best science fiction writers of the XX century. The writer, whose books are translated into more than 40 languages ​​and sold over 27 million.

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"Most can give someone who lost everything»
Stanislaw Lem was born September 12, 1921 in Lviv (which at that time belonged to Poland), the son of a retired military doctor Austro-Hungarian army. After a short time he studied at the local medical school, but, as he himself admitted, "without much enthusiasm." Its much more attracted to "Polytechnic", but to go to university in this specialty prevented enough proletarian origin. Father of the future writer used his connections to son received at least some education, but studies were interrupted by the war
"You have to be yourself. Always a struggling themselves, and the more, the more difficult: Do not try on other people's destiny "During the German occupation of Stanislaw Lem, forged documents to conceal the existence of Jewish blood, worked as a welder in a German company, then a car mechanic, took part in the Resistance



"Nobody reads; If you read, understands nothing; If we understand immediately forgets »
In 1946, after the accession of Lviv to the USSR, Lem, like other Poles repatriated. In Cracow he made a second attempt to learn to be a doctor, but was expelled from the institute because the exam refused to answer a question about the theory of Academician Lysenko. After deductions Lem got a job as a laboratory assistant at the Research Institute and began to write poetry. Then tried his hand at the genre of prose - in 1946 was published his first novel "The Man from Mars." Then he did finally finished the Medical Faculty of the Jagiellonian University, but after the success of the first novels finally left the medical career to devote himself to literature



"Talking pravdu- like to wander through the maze, filled with good intentions»
The first book - "Astronauts" - was published in 1951. Then Lem worked in a completely socialist realist vein: "Magellanic Cloud" to paint a bright communist future. Gradually, however, he polished his individual style. And autobiographical novel "of not lost time" missed censorship: it was published after almost ten years after it was written.



"There can be no justice where there is a law proclaiming the freedom»
In 1960 he released his famous "Tales of Pirx the Pilot", "Eden", "Invincible," "Tales robots" (in another translation, "The Cyberiad"). In 1982, after the imposition of martial law, he left Poland



The already considerable popularity in Russia is very Lem contributed to the film by Andrei Tarkovsky "Solaris" (based on the book of the Polish science fiction). Interestingly, when Steven Soderbergh took the re-adaptation of "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem in promotional materials represented to the public as "the famous Russian writer" In the photo director Andrei Tarkovsky (center) rehearses with Donatas Banionis and Natalya Bondarchuk scene from the movie "Solaris"



The popularity of "Solaris" is so great that is not limited to movies. In Germany, the popular eponymous opera based on the novel of the Polish science fiction writer (pictured scene from the opera)



"Probably a great time never was - someone is always someone pulled out his legs, just with different strengths»
He lived in Austria and Italy, but did not want to be called a dissident. In 1988 he returned to his homeland. Around the same time the writer has announced that from now prefers novels essays. Published not only in the Polish press: his article could appear in the "New Yorker", and does in "Penthouse". Among his awards as the Polish State Prize in 1976 and the Franz Kafka Prize



He had no desire to remain within a framework of sci-fi genre. Let his novels have provided him with an unprecedented success and popularity, but he wanted to have their say in the history of literature as such. In his later years the main occupation of Stanislaw Lem became Futurological forecasts, which listened serious international organization. Lem created his "library of the XXI century", to overflowing clogged fictional books and reviews on them. He was sure that being grounded scientific knowledge can no longer say about our world and its deeper grasp



"People somehow suffer that after death they will not. But why they do not suffer that they were not there before birth? »
Stanislaw Lem died in the cardiology clinic in Krakow on 85 th year of life. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages ​​and sold over 27 million copies.

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