[HN Gopher] Radical Polish books to add to your reading list ___________________________________________________________________ Radical Polish books to add to your reading list Author : axiomdata316 Score : 38 points Date : 2021-12-09 20:18 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.calvertjournal.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.calvertjournal.com) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-09 23:00 UTC)