Rozmowy ze Stanisławem Lemem
| Author | Stanisław Bereś |
|---|---|
| Original title | Rozmowy ze Stanisławem Lemem |
| Language | Polish |
| Genre | Interview |
| Published | 1987 |
| Publisher | Wydawnictwo Literackie |
| Publication place | Poland |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 399 |
| ISBN | 8308016561 |
| OCLC | 572265632 |
| Author | Stanisław Bereś |
|---|---|
| Original title | Tako rzecze… Lem |
| Language | Polish |
| Genre | Interview |
| Published | 2002 |
| Publisher | Wydawnictwo Literackie |
| Publication place | Poland |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 575 |
| ISBN | 8308032451 |
| OCLC | 749598762 |
Rozmowy ze Stanisławem Lemem (lit. Conversations with Stanisław Lem) is a book-length interview of Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem conducted by Stanisław Bereś in 1981-1982 and published in book format in 1987. A second, more comprehensive edition was published in 2002 under the title Tako rzecze… Lem (lit. Thus speaks... Lem).
The interview lasted a year - from November 1981 to August 1982, and was interrupted by the martial law in Poland. The book publication was delayed as both Lem and Bereś were seen as involved with opposition and sympathizing with the Western powers.[1] Parts of the interview were first published in West Germany, and in Poland, in monthly literary magazine Odra.[1] In 2007 the book was published by Polish publisher Wydawnictwo Literackie, but in low quality print of 10,000 copies, and the book was subject to significant interference by the censorship in Communist Poland, which removed a chapter discussing the then-contemporary situation of Poland.[1]
The second, expanded edition included fragments removed from the previous edition by censorship as well as a new chapter based on recent interviews with Lem carried out by Bereś after September 2001 attacks in the United States.[2] The title of the book was also changed to Tako rzecze… Lem (lit. Thus speaks... Lem), which was the title initially intended by the book.[1]
Reviewing the second edition in 2002, Wojciech Orliński called it "the most interesting of all monographies about Lem" and a "brilliant interview".[1]
In 2005 Bereś published another book-length interview, Historia i fantastyka, this time with Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski.[3] Wojciech Orliński in his review of Historia i fantastyka notes that comparing it with the Lem's interview from 1980s it allows for a study of how Polish science fiction and fantasy has changed over those two decades.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e Orliński, Wojciech (1 July 2002). "Tako rzecze...Lem, Bereś, Stanisław". wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-03-29.
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- ^ a b Orliński, Wojciech (26 October 2005). "Historia i fantastyka, Bereś, Stanisław; Sapkowski, Andrzej". wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-02-20.
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