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Re:Why are there few courses in Soviet literature at America... by nationcrafting on Monday May 25, 2015 @09:27PM (#9602487)
Re: Stanislaw Lem. You're right, he definitely feels like he belongs in the Soviet writers context. You can tell the difference in culture, context, commercial preoccupations, etc. when you compare Soderbergh's film version of Solaris with Tarkovsky's version. Both films were enjoyable, of course, but Tarkovsky was much closer to the depth of the book.
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Re:Why are there few courses in Soviet literature at America... by gambiting on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @06:49AM (#9603883)
Lem's "Invincible" is my favourite book of all time. It's very hard to buy it for my English friends though, as the only translation seems to be from German(already a translation)->English from 1971, so it's not ideal.
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Re:Why are there few courses in Soviet literature at America... by eps on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @02:47AM (#9603274)
The thing is, of course, that Lem didn't like both :)
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