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FICTION: The Age of Wonders, Aharon Appelfeld ∙ A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone ∙ Funeral Games, Mary Renault ∙ The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving ∙ Memoirs of a Space Traveler, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike
...Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, and a member of the committee, said he did not expect to received a written answer from the Polish Military Council. "It's not their custom" to respond to foreign protests, Baranczak said, but he added that the pressure of opinion, "especially from influential parties at Harvard," could be important...
Grand gestures and heroic sacrifices come naturally to the Poles, along with an alarming capacity for martyrdom. The 19th century playwright Stanislaw Wyspianski called long-suffering Poland "the Christ of nations" because of its capacity for anguish. Joseph Stalin is said to have remarked that bringing Communism to Poland was "like trying to saddle a cow." He did it anyway, but a nation of rebellious, romantic anti-Russian Catholics proved to be troublesome from the beginning. Most Poles never
MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER by Stanislaw...
These nine stories were left out of The Star Diaries (1976), an English translation of a 1971 Polish collection by Author Stanislaw Lem. The fact that this new book has thus tumbled out of a time warp seems entirely appropriate to its contents. More so, in fact, than the rather misleading title. Lem is not concerned here with rockets or star treks; only two stories take Ijon Tichy, the peripatetic hero and chronicler of The Star Diaries, away from planet Earth. The space that is traveled is chiefly cranial; vast internal distances are covered by leaps of imagination...