Stanisław Lem
I was shocked to read the following obituary line from the Associated Press:
Stanislaw Lem, the author of Solaris which was made into a movie starring George Clooney is dead at 84.
What a shame to reduce a prolific internationally renowned author, translated into 40 languages, into a writer of a book that was made into a film that a certain Hollywood actor blessed by his participation. America, my new motherland, will you ever learn to be respectful of the intellectuals, to appreciate the culture of the others and show a modicum of humility?
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I'm touched by your remarks about Stanislaw Lem.His books in Polish are so incredibly funny (some of them), I wonder how they came out in translation, especially that his puns seemed to exploit the linguistic potential of Polish.About Clooney - he blessed Solaris with showing his bare arse - no wonder to an American journalist he also blessed Lem with his bare arse, ha ha :)
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