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Solaris - Paperback By Stanislaw Lem - New (Other)
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- ISBN
- 9780156027601
- Book Title
- Solaris
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Fantasy / Contemporary, Science Fiction / General, Science Fiction / Space Exploration
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 5.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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"A fantastic book." --Steven Soderbergh When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself confronting a painful memory embodied in the physical likeness of a past lover. Kelvin learns that he is not alone in this and that other crews examining the planet are plagued with their own repressed and newly real memories. Could it be, as Solaris scientists speculate, that the ocean may be a massive neural center creating these memories, for a reason no one can identify? Long considered a classic, Solaris asks the question: Can we understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within? "A novel that makes you reevaluate the nature of intelligence itself." --Anne McCaffrey
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156027607
ISBN-13
9780156027601
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2310134
Product Key Features
Book Title
Solaris
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy / Contemporary, Science Fiction / General, Science Fiction / Space Exploration
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
5.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pg7158.L39s613 1987
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Not really essays, not genial and general E. M. Forster-ish talks either, nor stirring defenses nor rhetorical destructions, these lectures Nabokov prepared and gave at Cornell in the Fifties are just that: he talks and reads, we listen (the same general approach - heirophant picking out the mystery from the dross - that Nabokov used in his own fiction); and literature is taken apart like a boxful of toys: "impersonal imagination and artistic delight," "the supremacy of the detail over the general, of the part that is more alive than the whole." There are diagrams and drawings, quiddities made visual: a map of Sotherton Court in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park; exactly what kind of beetle Gregor Samsa turned into in "The Metamorphosis" the facade of 7 Eccles St., Bloom's house in Ulysses; what Odette's orchid looked like in Swann's Way. The more specific and crammed the writer, the more specific and crammed Nabokov's lecture: Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce. He finds Bleak House's tricks delicious, the richness and the pity; in Ulysses he swats away the Freudian interpretations ("a thousand and one nights [made] into a convention of Shriners") in favor of the devilish intricacy of Joycean synchronicity: "the hopeless past, the ridiculous and tragic present, and the pathetic future." Where sheer lush orchestration is less the thing, Nabokov falls back on thematic layering and transformation; before Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" he is almost brief, enchantedly synopsizing although with microscopic attention still. In Nabokov a crankiness is always near the surface (here he rants against movies, even music); and he betrays a certain anxiety by detailing so much, as though a great work might try and fool him: there's something at the same time eccentric and regimental to his appreciation. But finally there is a personal, fussy, high rapture to these lessons and illustrations, not quite analytical (Nabokov was too defensive and contentious for analysis - maybe too brilliant, too) - more a delight in literature-as-camouflage. Distinctive and demanding.
Copyright Date
1970
Lccn
86-031938
Dewey Decimal
891.8/537
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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