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started reading Solaris by Stanisław Lem

Stanisław Lem, Bill Johnston: Solaris (EBook, 2012, Premier Digital Publishing)

Despite two films made with panache „Solaris” remains a book constantly rediscovered by new generations …

I am finally going to read this classic sci-fi novel.

I started to read the (West) German translation by Irmtraud Zimmermann-Göllheim but found the language to be rather stilted, lacking any natural flow and frequently using peculiar turns of phrase. This made me look for alternative translations.

There is apparently another German translation by Kurt Kelp, which was published in the GDR (East Germany). This version gets some praise online for being the better translation but it apparently also leaves out some stuff and is shorter than the original Polish work, although I did not find any details. There are also no recent printings of this version, and of course no ebook edition. So for those reasons, this translation was out as well.

The original English translation by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox is itself based on an earlier French translation instead of on the original work. …

@Fynh_liest @gregorgross Danke für den Hinweis auf das Buch. Es klingt interessant (und beängstigend). Mir ist gerade aufgefallen, dass „How Everything Can Collapse“ eine Übersetzung aus dem Französischen ist. Es gibt anscheinend auch eine deutsche Übersetzung unter dem Titel „Wie alles zusammenbrechen kann“. Gibt es einen Grund, warum du die englische Übersetzung bevorzugst? Ist die besser?

Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens, Andrew Brown: How Everything Can Collapse (Paperback, 2020, Wiley-Interscience, Polity) No rating

Not sure if I want to read this. Often, for my own sanity, I prefer not to think about what may happen in the next few decades. Everyday life is stressful enough. It seems there is so little one can do as an individual to solve systemic problems. On the other hand, the problems don‘t just disappear if we don‘t look at them. We will soon enough be forced to face them.

reviewed Die Geschichte der Bienen by Maja Lunde

Maja Lunde: Die Geschichte der Bienen (EBook, German language, 2017, btb Verlag)

Enttäuschend und langatmig

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