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Google.pl's crazy doodle
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#62Stanislaw Lem is probably my most favorite sci-fi author. He's very popular in Europe, but not so much in the US it seems. His works are hilariously funny, philosophical and have a certain magic to them. When I saw the robot I was almost certain that it had to be about him. I don't know about the quality of the English translations of his books, but in German, they are fabulous. There are a lot of word plays that are…
> I don't know about the quality of the English translations of his books I don't know about the quality of the original Polish, but ... some of his heavier works are well, heavy in the English version. I'm thinking of "Solaris", "His Master's Voice", "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub". They are good books - but so are Dickens, Tolstoy etc. which require a bit of effort from the modern reader. However the Cyberiad is an ab…
. some of his heavier works are well, heavy in the English version. I'm thinking of "Solaris", "His Master's Voice", "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub".
A case of bad translations. Those books are quite readable in the original language.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't know about the quality of the English translations of his books I don't know about the quality of the original Polish, but ... some of his heavier works are well, heavy in the English version. I'm thinking of "Solaris", "His Master's Voice", "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub". They are good books - but so are Dickens, Tolstoy etc. which require a bit of effort from the modern reader. However the Cyberiad is an ab…
. some of his heavier works are well, heavy in the English version. I'm thinking of "Solaris", "His Master's Voice", "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub". A case of bad translations. Those books are quite readable in the original language.
So are Dickens and Tolstoy.
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#64Lem is great, and this doodle is a great remembrance. Great job, Google.
Re: Google.pl's crazy doodle
#65Stanislaw Lem is probably my most favorite sci-fi author. He's very popular in Europe, but not so much in the US it seems. His works are hilariously funny, philosophical and have a certain magic to them. When I saw the robot I was almost certain that it had to be about him. I don't know about the quality of the English translations of his books, but in German, they are fabulous. There are a lot of word plays that are…
I remember, years ago, reading him in German. A Polish medical student loaned/"foisted" Solaris on me. I rather enjoyed it.
Thanks about the "heads up" with regard to the issues with some of the English translations. I'd been thinking I should revisit it, but these days an English language text would be far more accessible.
Re: Google.pl's crazy doodle
#66Stanislaw Lem is probably my most favorite sci-fi author. He's very popular in Europe, but not so much in the US it seems. His works are hilariously funny, philosophical and have a certain magic to them. When I saw the robot I was almost certain that it had to be about him. I don't know about the quality of the English translations of his books, but in German, they are fabulous. There are a lot of word plays that are…
> I don't know about the quality of the English translations of his books I don't know about the quality of the original Polish, but ... some of his heavier works are well, heavy in the English version. I'm thinking of "Solaris", "His Master's Voice", "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub". They are good books - but so are Dickens, Tolstoy etc. which require a bit of effort from the modern reader. However the Cyberiad is an ab…
Try "Star Diaries" and other stories with Ijon Tichy. I always liked those a lot - I read them first in Polish when I was 12.
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#67Just a warning: if you've made it almost all the way through, don't be a moron like me and bump a key on your keyboard, you'll get immediately bounced to an actual Google instant search, and you'll have to start over from the beginning...
Yeah, I hit the "N" key when the big robot had a speech bubble with N in it. Oops.
I did the same thing. I'm pretty bummed about it because I don't have time to go back and do it again. Anyone know what happens after that?
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#68Okay, redundant though this is, I should underline that this Doodle is very specifically about Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad, which is great and I highly recommend it. As joshu says, English speakers should look for the Kandel translation, which is unbelievably good. Meanwhile, Polish speakers should count themselves fortunate that they can read the original!
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I hit the "N" key when the big robot had a speech bubble with N in it. Oops.
I did the same thing. I'm pretty bummed about it because I don't have time to go back and do it again. Anyone know what happens after that?
The robot drops down a thimble and some thread, then clears the screen and drops you into an instant search for Stanislaws Lem.
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#70The constructor you control in the doodle is Trurl, the other at the end is Klapaucius. The ending is from the first story in the Cyberiad where Trurl build a machine that can create anything that begins with the letter 'N' the Klapaucius tells it to create nothing and the machine destroys half the universe before they get it to quit.
Here is the full text to that first story:
http://webspace.webring.com/people/fc/churud_geo/cyberiadn.h...