Stanisław Lem - Man from Mars, the first book edition of the Author's first fantastic novel.
26-04-2022
Stanisław Lem - Man from Mars, the first book edition of the Author's first fantastic novel.
Stanisław Lem - Man from Mars, the first book edition of the Author's first fantastic novel.
Stanisław Lem is a leading representative of Polish science fiction, a philosopher, futurologist and essayist, although his output also includes realistic novels and satirical texts. His literary career began with cooperation with magazines ("Kuźnica", "Tygodnik Powszechny", "Nowy Świat Przygód"), where he initially published poems, later customarily added as an appendix to "Wysokie Zamku", and stories about the occupation. In "Nowy Świat Przygód" his first fantasy novel, "Man from Mars", was also published in installments. "Jan Błoński drew attention to the multifaceted nature of the discussed work as early as 1961 (" Życie Literackie "No. 497). Stanisław Lem touched on almost all the possibilities offered to the writer by modern science fiction. of abundant creativity, he repeated the evolution of the genre in a way: in fact, he started with simple, trusting and comforting tales ("Astronauts", "The Magellanic Cloud"), and soon he reached both a parody ("Diaries of Ijon Tichy"), as well as apocalyptic and concentration a vision of "the worst possible world" ("Eden"). Moreover, he systematically checked the literary opportunities brought by scientific fantasy. " Source: https://culture.pl/ Today we are starting the series in which we will show all the first editions of Stanisław Lem's works. At the beginning, we present the first fantasy novel by Stanisław Lem in its first compact, i.e. book edition.
LEM Stanisław
MAN FROM MARS
B.w., b.y. [ca 1989]. page 104, format 14.5x2 cm,
SOFT PAGE COVER
Duplicated typescript. Glued book block.
Man from Mars - the first literary work of Stanisław Lem, published in 1946 in the Nowy Świat Przygód magazine, written during the war. It appeared in the book edition only in 1994, by the NOWA Independent Publishing House - previously it was only available in an unofficial, fanzine version. In 2009, it was reissued in one volume with Lem's stories and poems from that period in the volume Man from Mars. Youthful stories. Poems.
The author himself considered the work extremely naive and weak, which one would like to bury forever "in the cemetery of general illegibility"
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