[HN Gopher] Radical Polish books to add to your reading list
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       Radical Polish books to add to your reading list
        
       Author : axiomdata316
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2021-12-09 20:18 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | maxk42 wrote:
       | Why is this on HN?
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Unexpected things like this are welcome on HN when they're
         | interesting and not closely correlated with other stuff that
         | appears here (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&pref
         | ix=false&so...).
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
       | cafard wrote:
       | Our neighborhood book club read _Drive Your Plow Over the Bones
       | of the Dead_ , and I was not impressed.
        
         | ziggus wrote:
         | I'll inform the news media immediately.
        
       | cl42 wrote:
       | Stanislaw Lem (one of his books is on the list) is a fantastic
       | author.
       | 
       | If you are a logophile, I highly recommend reading "The
       | Futurological Congress".
       | 
       | Polish is a language where you can conjugate everything into
       | something else (nouns into verbs, verbs into nouns, nice words
       | into curse words), and Lem wrote a book that plays off of this
       | linguistic peculiarity in a way that is hilarious.
       | 
       | ... what's even MORE beautiful is the translator had to take that
       | and translate it into similar wordplay in English. Huge respect
       | for the translators doing this work.
        
         | yakubin wrote:
         | Paradoxically, I've never brought myself to like Lem's science-
         | fiction books, but enjoyed his two non-science-fiction books
         | (one of them even non-fiction):
         | 
         | 1. Hospital of the Transfiguration: <https://www.goodreads.com/
         | book/show/251632.Hospital_of_the_T...>
         | 
         | 2. Highcastle: A Remembrance:
         | <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251630.Highcastle>
        
           | Sosh101 wrote:
           | Have you tried 'Fiasco'? I've reread that a couple of times.
        
       | Kharvok wrote:
       | These aren't the interesting kind of radical. Just feminist books
       | filled with power/struggle fantasies.
        
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