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Episode 76 : Commemorating Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris"
Thirteen years ago, on March 27, 2006, Stanislaw Lem went to meet the ultimate Unknown. We are joined by poet and professor Chris Cokinos to commemorate Lem’s death and to dig into what is perhaps his most well and widely-known work, “Solaris.” What keeps us coming back to this weird little book? What is up with those adaptations? In what ways can we as readers in 2019 better tangle with this work in all of its incarnations? Cokinos, who is currently teaching “Solaris” as part of his larger curriculum at the University of Arizona, and who is currently refining a manuscript of science fictional poetry, unpacks what Lem means to him—and maybe, just maybe, he means to all of us.
In today’s episode, we reference two analyses of “Solaris,” both well worth tracking down:
- Istvan Csicsery-Ronay’s 1985 “The Book is the Alien: On Certain and Uncertain Readings of Lem’s ‘Solaris’” (available on JSTOR); and
- Roger Ebert’s review of the 2002 Soderbergh/Cameron adaptation: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/solaris-2002
You can find Chris Cokinos’ books wherever good books are sold.
Like our content or our new introduction? Our website is www.imaginaries.net, and you can drop us a line at [email protected] or find us on Twitter at @imaginary_pod. You can find ALL of our back episodes on YouTube, and listen to our episodes on iTunes or SoundCloud. If you would like to help support our work, you can do so at www.ko-fi.com/imaginaries.
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Thirteen years ago, on March 27, 2006, Stanislaw Lem went to meet the ultimate Unknown. We are joined by poet and professor Chris Cokinos to commemorate Lem’s death and to dig into what is perhaps his most well and widely-known work, “Solaris.” What keeps us coming back to this weird little book? What is up with those adaptations? In what ways can we as readers in 2019 better tangle with this work in all of its incarnations? Cokinos, who is currently teaching “Solaris” as part of his larger curriculum at the University of Arizona, and who is currently refining a manuscript of science fictional poetry, unpacks what Lem means to him—and maybe, just maybe, he means to all of us.
In today’s episode, we reference two analyses of “Solaris,” both well worth tracking down:
- Istvan Csicsery-Ronay’s 1985 “The Book is the Alien: On Certain and Uncertain Readings of Lem’s ‘Solaris’” (available on JSTOR); and
- Roger Ebert’s review of the 2002 Soderbergh/Cameron adaptation: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/solaris-2002
You can find Chris Cokinos’ books wherever good books are sold.
Like our content or our new introduction? Our website is www.imaginaries.net, and you can drop us a line at [email protected] or find us on Twitter at @imaginary_pod. You can find ALL of our back episodes on YouTube, and listen to our episodes on iTunes or SoundCloud. If you would like to help support our work, you can do so at www.ko-fi.com/imaginaries.