Description
Holocaust and the Stars
The Past in the Prose of Stanisław Lem
Studies in Global Genre Fiction Series
Author: Gajewska Agnieszka
Language: EnglishSubjects for Holocaust and the Stars:
Keywords
Master's Voice; Kielce Pogrom; Witold Gombrowicz; Regis III; Young Man; Aryan Side; Timeless; Aryan Papers; Lot's Wife; PRL; Dead Man; Home Army; Vile Bodies; Sf; Demarcation Lines; Post-war; Lems; Science Fiction Works; Grandfather's Decision; Pieter Breughel; Yevgeny Zamyatin; Poland; Wawel Castle; Central Historical Jewish Commission; Held
Publication date: 11-2021
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 11-2021
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanis?aw 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 traces these through original and brilliant readings of his fiction and non-fiction. She considers language, worldbuilding, themes, motifs and characterization as well as many buried allusions to the Holocaust in Lem?s published and archival work, and uses these fragments to capture a different side of Lem than previously known. The book discusses various issues concerning the writer?s life, such as his upbringing in a Jewish, Zionist-minded family, the extensive relations between the Lem family and the elite of Lviv at that time, details of the Lem family killed during the German occupation and attempts to reconstruct what happened to Lem?s parents and to the writer himself after escaping the ghetto.
Part of the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, this English translation of the Polish original, which has already been considered a milestone in Lem studies, offers a fresh perspective on the writer and his work. It will be an important intervention for scholars and researchers of Jewish studies, Holocaust literature, science fiction studies, English literature, world war studies, minority studies, popular culture, history and cultural studies.
Introduction 1. Lem(Berg) Land 2. The Split 3. Holocaust in Space Conclusion
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.
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