1st Edition

Holocaust and the Stars The Past in the Prose of Stanisław Lem

By Agnieszka Gajewska Copyright 2022
174 Pages
by Routledge India

174 Pages
by Routledge India

174 Pages
by Routledge India

This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanisław Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies. The author painstakingly recreates the context of Lem’s early life and his traumatic experiences during the Second World War due to his Jewish background, and then... Read more

Introduction 1. Lem(Berg) Land 2. The Split 3. Holocaust in Space  Conclusion

Biography

Agnieszka Gajewska is professor at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

Katarzyna Gucio is an experienced and highly accomplished translator of Polish and English.