Stanisław Lem (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Stanisław Lem’s work defies definition. He wrote both realistic and utopian novels, a detective novel with the theory of probability a leading murder suspect, reviews of nonexistent books, private poetry, Kafkaesque parables, and acid social commentary and anti-totalitarian statements in ingeniously nonsensical comic form. He wrote science fiction in which extraterrestial life takes such forms as a living ocean, weird fungi, or totally invisible and unknowable entities. Though best known for his science fiction, Lem regularly wrote impressive works in...
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