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Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy Free FREE STAR DIARIES: FURTHER REMINISCENCES OF IJON TICHY PDF Stanislaw Lem,LEM,Michael Kandel | 286 pages | 26 Jun 1985 | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN | 9780156849050 | English | San Diego, CA, United States The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy by Stanisław Lem Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Michael Kandel. Read more Read less. Amazon Global Store International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. Any warranty descriptions were intended for purchasers in the country of origin. Warranty may not be valid in the UAE. Learn more about Amazon Global Store. From the Back Cover "One of the most intelligent, erudite, and comic writers working today. In their place, Tichy finds sadomasochistic robots who speak a dialect much like Chaucerian English, killer potatoes with an appetite for spacecraft, and robot theologians who are being relentlessly persecuted by creators who have renounced their original faith. Full of the intellectual satire for which Stanislaw Lem is esteemed, The Star Diaries speaks volumes about contemporary society in its depiction of highly bizarre, faraway, futuristic worlds. Winner of the Kafka Prize, he is a contributor to many magazines, including the New Yorker, and he is the author of numerous works, including Solaris. No customer reviews. How are ratings calculated? Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. Verified Purchase. First, we have to be clear. There is no such Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy. And second, Lem is just plain funny. Set aside the multiplicity of definitions Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy religion and religiosity and settle on this. Religious thought is the logical process of reasoning in light of an incomplete informational data set. What is the source of our feeling of self- awareness or just plain self? Why is there an apparent order to the universe? They just cover different domains. But technology throws a whole bunch of new stuff into the mix. Turns out that for a while, many years in the planets past, there were arguments and Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy out-breaks over religious belief. And every time one side looked like it was winning, some technological advance would give the advantage to the other. The friars realized that the problem, Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy its base, was not solvable. But also, they realized, that based on the construct of physical beings, chemical or other physical manipulations were always possible. You could take a pill that would make you a devout catholic or another pill that would make you an atheist. But the friars refused to pull the trigger. What an incredible story! I'm a big Heinlein and PKD fan for reference. This book is quite simply truly magnificent. However, this book also heads well into intellectualism amidst magnificently farcical elements and simply divine wordplay. I can't imagine the difficulty of translating something, and keeping it funny in the 2nd language. The translator has done an amazing job. The vocabulary in this guy's translations is worthy of a Harvard Coffee Shop in The intellectual aspects of these stories are truly wondrous, with historical references that, upon research, end up being well grounded and truly surprising. Wikipedia agrees! This book does have multiple sections that are, at the same time philosophically brilliant AND like wading through wet concrete The only caveat I have is one of the greatest things about this book It is written at a level that probably requires an intellectual reader with a great vocabulary Contrast that with most sci-fi that Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy be read pretty well at a 5th grade level. But, otherwise Call it graduate level Hitchhiker's Guide Call it sciencey Vonnegut. If this review spoke to you and your tastes, you owe it to yourself to check it out. From my own experience, Lem's books are all over the place But, all do seem to contain very interesting philosophy and consideration of the human spirit on a quite high level. I'll be continuing my way through his catalog If you are a fan of synthy-pop music, a perfect companion for this book is the music album "Rings Around The World" by Super Furry Animals. One person found this helpful. Lem is one of the most original, creative, wickedly funny, irresistibly charming storytellers ever to grace science fiction. The Star Diaries was rightly considered to Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy an instant classic and it has stood the test of time. I have read a lot of sci-fi in my life, and I consider this to be one of my all-time favorites. Nobody does it like Lem does it, and nobody who purchases this book will be disappointed when they read it. If I had to pick a short list of books to take along with me to a desert island, this book would certainly be among them. This is my first Stanistaw Lem book, and except for one chapter that was unduly long I found it enjoyable. Each chapter is pretty much independent of another, so in effect it's a collection of short stories about the same space traveler character, apparently written over a long period of time but in a very consistent style. For those familiar with Vonnegut's fictitious author Kilgore Trout, the writing style is very reminiscent of him, and the book Venus on the Halfshell purportedly written by him but actually written by Farmer. That is the style of this science fiction. Go to Amazon. Discover the best of shopping and entertainment with Amazon Prime. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery on millions of eligible domestic and international items, in addition to exclusive access to movies, TV shows, and more. Back to top. Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Sell on Souq. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers. Audible Download Audio Books. Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web. Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands. The Star Diaries - Wikipedia The Kindle edition [1] contains the first English translation of the following novel:. Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy adaptations of several voyages taken by Ijon Tichy exist. In andtwo independent short films Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy made, running about 15 minutes each, directed by Dennis Jacobsen, Randa Chahoud, and Oliver Jahn Jahn also played the main character Ijon Tichywith Nora Tschirner starring as the female hologram. Both short films are available as legal downloads from the official site of production company Bildwerke Berlin. A second series of 8 episodes followed in It made use of Gelb's closet to represent Tichy's spaceship, and Gelb performed live with pre-recorded images of himself. Eventually he finds out that all robots are in fact disguised humans. The story in Futurama loosely uses the plot trick of the planet of human-hating robots. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Star Diaries First edition. Retrieved The New York Times. Korzenie s Do You Exist, Mr. Cyberiada opera Solaris play. Lymphater Lem's robots Trurl and Klapaucius. Hidden categories: Articles containing Polish-language text All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from January Articles containing Russian-language text. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. First edition. Polish : Dzienniki gwiazdowe. I will put this bluntly: I am highly aware that the English speaking world generally neglects the literature of the rest of the world, which is the idea behind the Reading the World challenge to begin w. I will put this bluntly: I am highly aware that the English speaking world generally neglects the literature of the rest of the world, which is the idea behind the Reading the World challenge to begin with. I am also aware that among the world literature that does gain some fame, the Eastern block is not in focus. Because Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy book is brilliant in its writing, ideas Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy sense of humor, achieved through satire. I read it in Michael Kandel's translation, my Polish not being great as of yet though I consider myself a good studentand I thought the writing was beautiful. I can only begin to imagine how lovely Lem's original expressions are, because translations, no matter how good, always take away something from the original. The language, overall, was very rich, changing between styles, even using a made up version of old and new language, in the Polish version, I assume, Polish, but also, and much credit to Kandel, of course, in the English version, a sensational mix of old and new English that I had some trouble with, but that only attests to it's greatness, because it used expressions long out of use. I am generally not a fan of satire, but this book was fantastic in that sense. The humor, so gentle and subtle and yet obviously there, was amazing. I usually put some berth between myself and humorous books, but I do not regret a second of reading The Star Diaries. Which brings me to the moment I will acquaint you with the book itself: The Star Diaries tells the story of Ijon Tichywho Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy from one planet to another and gets in all kinds of strange and comic situations.
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