LEM Stanislaw - Letters, or the resistance of matter

An exceptional, HARDLY AVAILABLE item.

The Correspondence of Stanisław Lem, selected and edited by Jerzy Jarzębski, shows the author of "Solaris" in a slightly different incarnation than the one to which readers of his books have become accustomed. Although he is still the same penetrating, skeptical observer, looking at reality from a philosophical distance and projecting with visionary flair and scientific integrity possible solutions to the most important problems of civilization, he is also a father, friend, confidant and advisor, a private person entangled in dozens of small, everyday worries and troubles. A separate, quite substantial group of letters is formed by the writer's correspondence with various state institutions - an original document of grotesque-tragic struggles with the absurdities of communist reality.

Literary Publishing House, 2002.
Format: 195 x 125 mm, 291 pages.

ISBN: 9788308032916

Piece in very nice condition, with minimal soiling and traces of bumping on the upper corners of several pages.