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Friday, March 31, 2006

Stanisław Lem

Stanislaw Lem, a great Polish science fiction writer, died March 27. He was 84 years old.

I know his name only by one of his works "Solaris" which was made into a movie by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972. Speaking of Tarkovsky, "Sacrifice" came up to my mind first. I came to know this work by the book "Sacrifice" by Kunio Yanagida. In the movie, I heard the aria "Erbarme dich" from Bach's St. Matthew Passion. I was so moved to buy a CD of Matthäuspassion conducted by Mengelberg.

...Back to Lem, his books seem to have been translated into 41 languages and sold over 27 million copies.

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