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'''''Czas nieutracony''''' (title translated as ''Time Not Lost'' or ''Time Saved'') is a [[trilogy]] novel of [[Stanisław Lem]] in the style of [[Socialist realism]]. First published in 1955, it consists of the novels ''[[Hospital of the Transfiguration]],'' ''Among the Dead'' ("Wśród umarłych"), and ''Return'' (" |
'''''Czas nieutracony''''' (title translated as ''Time Not Lost'' or ''Time Saved'') is a [[trilogy]] novel of [[Stanisław Lem]] in the style of [[Socialist realism]]. First published in 1955, it consists of the novels ''[[Hospital of the Transfiguration]],'' ''Among the Dead'' ("Wśród umarłych"), and ''Return'' ("Powrót)"). |
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The first volume was finished in 1948, to be published by "Gebethner i Wolff" publisher, but it was stopped by censorship.<ref name=beres>Stanisław Bereś, [http://wkajt.republika.pl/acta/beres4.htm "Inteligent w Domu Wariatów: (soc)realistyczna trylogia Stanisława Lema"], ''Acta Lemiana Monashiensis'', a special edition of ''Acta Polonica Monashiensis'', vol.2., no.2, 2002, [[Monash University]] </ref> Lem recalls endless travels to Warsaw to appease the censors,<ref>[http://solaris.lem.pl/ksiazki/beletrystyka/szpital-przemienienia/125-komentarz-szpital Lem's commentary about the ''Hospital of Transfiguration'']</ref> but eventually he had to add two more parts, and as a result the trilogy was published 3 times (1955, 1957, 1965). It is telling, however, that since 1975 Lem published only the first part.<ref name=beres/> |
The first volume was finished in 1948, to be published by "Gebethner i Wolff" publisher, but it was stopped by censorship.<ref name=beres>Stanisław Bereś, [http://wkajt.republika.pl/acta/beres4.htm "Inteligent w Domu Wariatów: (soc)realistyczna trylogia Stanisława Lema"], ''Acta Lemiana Monashiensis'', a special edition of ''Acta Polonica Monashiensis'', vol.2., no.2, 2002, [[Monash University]] </ref> Lem recalls endless travels to Warsaw to appease the censors,<ref>[http://solaris.lem.pl/ksiazki/beletrystyka/szpital-przemienienia/125-komentarz-szpital Lem's commentary about the ''Hospital of Transfiguration'']</ref> but eventually he had to add two more parts, and as a result the trilogy was published 3 times (1955, 1957, 1965). It is telling, however, that since 1975 Lem published only the first part.<ref name=beres/> |
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Czas nieutracony (title translated as Time Not Lost or Time Saved) is a trilogy novel of Stanisław Lem in the style of Socialist realism. First published in 1955, it consists of the novels Hospital of the Transfiguration, Among the Dead ("Wśród umarłych"), and Return ("Powrót)").
The first volume was finished in 1948, to be published by "Gebethner i Wolff" publisher, but it was stopped by censorship.[1] Lem recalls endless travels to Warsaw to appease the censors,[2] but eventually he had to add two more parts, and as a result the trilogy was published 3 times (1955, 1957, 1965). It is telling, however, that since 1975 Lem published only the first part.[1]
Hospital of the Transfiguration, finished in 1948, is a psychodrama about a young doctor, Stefan Trzyniecki, who worked in the psychiatric hospital during the Nazi occupation of Poland in the Second World War.
Among the Dead, finished in 1949, is the story a young mathematical genuis, Karol Wilk, who works in an automobile shop. Professors want so save his talent against the war, but he wants to join the resistance. In a interview, Lem says that the story was bases on his own experience of the time: after the school he worked in car shops, and had contacts with the underground.[3] In 2005 a part of this book was published in the collection volume pl of Lem's complete works under the title Operation "Reinhardt", a tale about the Nazi plan for the deportation of Polish Jews into extermination camps and how it was being executed.
References
- ^ a b Stanisław Bereś, "Inteligent w Domu Wariatów: (soc)realistyczna trylogia Stanisława Lema", Acta Lemiana Monashiensis, a special edition of Acta Polonica Monashiensis, vol.2., no.2, 2002, Monash University
- ^ Lem's commentary about the Hospital of Transfiguration
- ^ Stanisław Lem, Tomasz Fiałkowski, "Świat na krawędzi. Ze Stanisławem Lemem rozmawia Tomasz Fiałkowski", Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, 2000, p. 44.
