Author | Stanisław Lem |
---|---|
Original title | Polish: Dzienniki gwiazdowe |
Translator | English: Michael Kandel |
Illustrator | Stanisław Lem |
Cover artist | Marian Stachurski |
Country | Poland |
Language | Polish, English, German, Russian |
Genre | Science fiction, satire, philosophical fiction |
Publisher | Iskry (1957) |
Publication date | 1957, 1971 |
Published in English | 1976 |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
The Star Diaries is a series of short stories of the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy, of satirical nature, [1] by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. The first ones were published in a 1954 collection Sezam i inne opowiadania [nb 1] and first published as a separate book in 1957 titled Dzienniki gwiazdowe, expanded in 1971. Closely related to this series is the series Ze wspomnień Ijona Tichego [From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy]. Usually these stories, and several others, are considered to be the same cycle of the adventures of Ijon Tichy.
The permit of the Communist censors for the 1954 publication described The Star Diaries as a satire of the capitalist society while failing to notice numerous parallels with the Communist society. [1]
The collections were published in English in two volumes, The Star Diaries (published New York, 1976) and Memoirs of a Space Traveller (published London, 1982).
Translated by Michael Kandel.
Translated by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek
The 2017 Kindle edition [2] contains the first English translation of the following novel:
In 1965 a Polish TV film Professor Zazul was released, director Marek Nowicki . [5]
German-language adaptations of several voyages taken by Ijon Tichy exist. In 2001 and 2002, two independent short films were made, running about 15 minutes each, directed by Dennis Jacobsen, Randa Chahoud, and Oliver Jahn (Jahn also played the main character Ijon Tichy), with Nora Tschirner starring as the female hologram. In 2006, the same team produced a miniseries called Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot for German TV, with 6 episodes of 15 minutes each again, which premiered March 2007 on ZDF. A second series of 8 episodes followed in 2011.
Theater in Quarantine and Sinking Ship Productions adapted "The Seventh Voyage", in which Tichy gets stuck in a time loop, into a work of streaming theater during the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece was created by director Jonathan Levin, playwright Josh Luxenberg, and performer Joshua William Gelb. The adaption, titled The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy, [6] was live-streamed twice on July 30, 2020 and posted on YouTube. It made use of Gelb's closet to represent Tichy's spaceship, and Gelb performed live with pre-recorded images of himself. [7] [8]
The Seventh Voyage is also the base of the science fiction comedy film Pokój ("Room") by Krzysztof Jankowski premiered on February 5, 2021 online ( VoD). [9] In the film Tichy (Wojciech Solarz) was going to announce a protest against the weaponizing the "spacetime warper" at the Panslavic Parliament, but he was seized by the antagonists and a new weapon was tested upon him. A side effect of the weapon is the multiplication of Tichy. However instead of taking an advantage of this for an escape, Tichy starts to argue with his clones, leading to comic situations similar to these in "The Seventh Voyage". [10] [11] "The Eleventh Voyage" was a base of the 1999 Futurama episode 0105 " Fear of a Bot Planet". [12] In Lem's story Ijon Tichy crash-lands on a planet populated with human-hating robots, so he disguises himself as a robot. Eventually he finds out that all robots are in fact disguised humans. The story in Futurama loosely uses the plot trick of the planet of human-hating robots.
"The Fourteenth Voyage" was rendered as an animation film in the Soviet Union in 1985. Produced by Azerbaijanfilm in Russian language, this 10-minute film was titled From the Diaries of Ijon Tichy. A Voyage to Enteropia (Russian: Из дневников Ийона Тихого. Путешествие на Интеропию). Its screenwriter and director is Russian animator Gennady Tischchenko . [13]
Author | Stanisław Lem |
---|---|
Original title | Polish: Dzienniki gwiazdowe |
Translator | English: Michael Kandel |
Illustrator | Stanisław Lem |
Cover artist | Marian Stachurski |
Country | Poland |
Language | Polish, English, German, Russian |
Genre | Science fiction, satire, philosophical fiction |
Publisher | Iskry (1957) |
Publication date | 1957, 1971 |
Published in English | 1976 |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
The Star Diaries is a series of short stories of the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy, of satirical nature, [1] by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. The first ones were published in a 1954 collection Sezam i inne opowiadania [nb 1] and first published as a separate book in 1957 titled Dzienniki gwiazdowe, expanded in 1971. Closely related to this series is the series Ze wspomnień Ijona Tichego [From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy]. Usually these stories, and several others, are considered to be the same cycle of the adventures of Ijon Tichy.
The permit of the Communist censors for the 1954 publication described The Star Diaries as a satire of the capitalist society while failing to notice numerous parallels with the Communist society. [1]
The collections were published in English in two volumes, The Star Diaries (published New York, 1976) and Memoirs of a Space Traveller (published London, 1982).
Translated by Michael Kandel.
Translated by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek
The 2017 Kindle edition [2] contains the first English translation of the following novel:
In 1965 a Polish TV film Professor Zazul was released, director Marek Nowicki . [5]
German-language adaptations of several voyages taken by Ijon Tichy exist. In 2001 and 2002, two independent short films were made, running about 15 minutes each, directed by Dennis Jacobsen, Randa Chahoud, and Oliver Jahn (Jahn also played the main character Ijon Tichy), with Nora Tschirner starring as the female hologram. In 2006, the same team produced a miniseries called Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot for German TV, with 6 episodes of 15 minutes each again, which premiered March 2007 on ZDF. A second series of 8 episodes followed in 2011.
Theater in Quarantine and Sinking Ship Productions adapted "The Seventh Voyage", in which Tichy gets stuck in a time loop, into a work of streaming theater during the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece was created by director Jonathan Levin, playwright Josh Luxenberg, and performer Joshua William Gelb. The adaption, titled The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy, [6] was live-streamed twice on July 30, 2020 and posted on YouTube. It made use of Gelb's closet to represent Tichy's spaceship, and Gelb performed live with pre-recorded images of himself. [7] [8]
The Seventh Voyage is also the base of the science fiction comedy film Pokój ("Room") by Krzysztof Jankowski premiered on February 5, 2021 online ( VoD). [9] In the film Tichy (Wojciech Solarz) was going to announce a protest against the weaponizing the "spacetime warper" at the Panslavic Parliament, but he was seized by the antagonists and a new weapon was tested upon him. A side effect of the weapon is the multiplication of Tichy. However instead of taking an advantage of this for an escape, Tichy starts to argue with his clones, leading to comic situations similar to these in "The Seventh Voyage". [10] [11] "The Eleventh Voyage" was a base of the 1999 Futurama episode 0105 " Fear of a Bot Planet". [12] In Lem's story Ijon Tichy crash-lands on a planet populated with human-hating robots, so he disguises himself as a robot. Eventually he finds out that all robots are in fact disguised humans. The story in Futurama loosely uses the plot trick of the planet of human-hating robots.
"The Fourteenth Voyage" was rendered as an animation film in the Soviet Union in 1985. Produced by Azerbaijanfilm in Russian language, this 10-minute film was titled From the Diaries of Ijon Tichy. A Voyage to Enteropia (Russian: Из дневников Ийона Тихого. Путешествие на Интеропию). Its screenwriter and director is Russian animator Gennady Tischchenko . [13]