I really enjoy rereading Ursula K. Le Guin’s take on Solaris.

“An early adept of cybernetics and information theory, Lem created in Solaris an extremely sophisticated narrative structure for exemplifying the frustration of the desire to understand. Dense, vivid, explicit, packed with implications, the words of his story lead us through tumultuous, suggestive, successive images to theory after theory, question after question, only to arrive at last at a word-constructed but wordless silence.

One element of this pursuit will delight anyone who has had to read much of what is called ‘academic research.’ To such a reader the hitherto unknown field of Solaristics will be all too familiar. Lem's sarcastic wit is at its sharpest as he goes through the library of Solaristics: the claims of the experts, the quarrels of the scholars, explanations that replace explanations ad infinitum, theories that jostle one another into oblivion…” from “Stanislaw Lem: Solaris

An introduction written in 2002 for a German-language edition of Solaris from Heyne Verlag in Munich, in which it appeared in translation.”

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