Wizja lokalna

by Stanisław Lem

Ijon Tichy

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"Der Erzähler heißt Ijon Tichy: der Held der Sterntagebücher setzt hier seine außerirdischen Erkundungen fort. Zunächst betreibt er in der Schweiz Studien im Institut für Geschichtsmaschinen, einer Filiale des Ministeriums für Außerirdische Angelegenheiten. Dort wird mit allen verfügbaren Daten die Geschichte ferner Planeten simuliert. Ausgangspunkt ist Tichys Darstellung des Planeten Entia in der 14. Reise: anscheinend hat Tichy einen Vergnügungsmond, ein kosmisches Disney-Land, show more mit dem Planeten selbst verwechselt. Während der wichtigsten Reise seiner Laufbahn führt Tichy Gespräche mit Russell, Popper, Feyerabend und Shakespeare, d.h. mit kybernetischen Persönlichkeitskopien auf Kassetten." show less

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Das Buch kippt in die unwahrscheinlichlichsten Richtungen.
Ijon Tichy, que en los Diarios de las estrellas aparece como un Münchausen cósmico, reemprende sus actividades como viajero, explorador y corresponsal. Poco después de una breve y dramática estancia en Suiza, Tichy conoce al profesor de derecho cósmico Roger Gnuss, que dirige el instituto de Máquinas de la Historia, y en el que experimenta la siguiente teoría: como no es posible moverse por el tiempo, hay que mover el tiempo. En este instituto Tichy se entera de que el planeta Entia no está de acuerdo con ciertos pasajes de los Diarios de las estrellas. Tichy decide entonces estudiar más a fondo la historia de Entia, aunque preguntándose entretanto si no estará buscando en el cosmos una solución a los problemas humanos.

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Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem was born on September 12, 1921. A medical graduate of Cracow University, he is at home both in the sciences and in philosophy, and this broad erudition gives his writings genuine depth. He has published extensively, not only fiction, but also theoretical studies. His books have been translated into 41 show more languages and sold over 27 million copies. He gained international acclaim for The Cyberiad, a series of short stories, which was first published in 1974. A trend toward increasingly serious philosophical speculation is found in his later works, such as Solaris (1961), which was made into a Soviet film by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade by Steven Soderbergh in 2002. He died on March 27, 2006 in Krakow at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title*
Lokaltermin
Original title
Wizja lokalna
Original publication date
1982
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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
DDC/MDS
891.8537Literature & rhetoricLiteratures of other languagesEast Indo-European and Celtic literaturesWest and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian)PolishPolish fiction1919–1989
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PG7158 .L39 .W57Language and LiteratureSlavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian languageSlavic. Baltic. AlbanianSlavicPolish

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