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02962aam a2200385 i 4500 001 03787F9CCD0211ECB5E908A224ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220506010041 008 210716t20222022enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021032597 020 $a 0367428725 020 $a 9780367428723 020 $a 0367428733 020 $a 9780367428730 035 $a (OCoLC)1263247678 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d EAU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h pol 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PG7158 L392 G3513 2022 100 1 $a Gajewska, Agnieszka, $e author. 240 10 $a ZagÅada i gwiazdy. $l English 245 10 $a Holocaust and the stars : $b the past in the prose of StanisÅaw Lem / $c Agnieszka Gajewska ; translated by Katarzyna Gucio. 264 1 $a Abingdon, Oxon ; $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2022. 300 $a ix, 163 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 0 $a Studies in global genre fiction 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master, StanisÅaw Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies. The author painstakingly recreates the context of Lem's early life and his traumatic experiences during the Second World War due to his Jewish background, and then traces these through original and brilliant readings of his fiction and non-fiction. She considers language, worldbuilding, themes, motifs, characterization, as well as many buried allusions to the holocaust in Lem's published and archival work and uses these fragments to capture a different side of Lem than previously known. The book discusses various issues concerning the writer's life, such as his upbringing in a Jewish, Zionist-minded family, extensive relations between the Lem family and the elite of Lviv at that time, details of the Lem family killed during the German occupation, as well as attempts to reconstruct what happened to Lem's parents and to the writer himself after escaping the ghetto. Part of the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, this English translation of the Polish original, which has already been considered a milestone in Lem studies, brings a fresh perspective on the writer and his work. It will be an important intervention for scholars and researchers of Jewish studies, holocaust literature, science fiction studies, English literature, world war studies, minority studies, popular culture, history and cultural studies"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Lem, StanisÅaw $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 650 0 $a History in literature. 700 1 $a Gucio, Katarzyna, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220802020914.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=03787F9CCD0211ECB5E908A224ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search