Much more satisfying effort from the director of Polacy Polacy, and the one that is really focused on Lem.
I did not know much about Lem: that he was born in Lwów (that is, Lviv, now Ukraine), studied medicine, survived the Nazi occupation and moved to Kraków when Lwów was annexed by the Soviets, studied medicine again and failed the final exam on purpose. One of the more bizarre stories is that of Philip K. Dick (that Philip K. Dick) penning a conspiranoic letter to the FBI suggesting that Stanisław Lem didn’t exist and was a name for a secret communist organisation.
As a note aside: Teatro Guiniguada now operates at 100% capacity. So, what I would call “full” last month now looks like half-empty. An elderly couple sitting in front of me were visibly unhappy that from now on they could have neighbours — not that they had any — who are not separated by an empty seat.
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