"In fact" "I much harder to part with loved ones, who die." "And my own death?" "There is a famous saying: "As long as I live, there is no death, and when it is, I do not have."" "So it is really happening." "But when you have to part with loved ones - many of my acquaintances, friends and relatives have already died - it irreversibly" "But this is our stay on earth, and there is nothing you can do about it." "I do not believe in a reward in the next world, because I do not believe in any "the light."" "In the afterlife." "I do not believe that's all." "I am deeply convinced, that there is nothing after death is not " "Well, except for the dust in the dirt." "Honored eternal rest ..." "Well, eternal rest and eternal peace means." "That is nothingness." "But I'm not so much thinking about it all day long, because as long as we live, we live it, then stop." "All we stop." "Of course, I could be born marten, or beaver, or not born, or, God forbid, born in China under the communist regime " "Or, in Soviet Russia - also quite scary." "Or in America - it would be a little less scary." "Or 200 years ago - it would also be quite unpleasant." "A lot of fleas, no insecticides ..." "But if this reasoning, I must say, that in general it would not be otherwise." "It could be better, but was not the worst." "I'm not complaining about his life, because they tried to use it correctly." "There is a Latin proverb" " Nulla dies sine linea - every day to write at least one line." "From this perspective I feel that I have lost quite a bit of time." "However, in the amount of 75 years held in the blink of an eye, time just flies." "He is by nature a loner, but still he needs contact with others." "More has a great, just a great sense of humor." "Now, it may have less, because his health is not good, he became a little to go out, but in the past he often came to our office to just talk - without a specific purpose, just when went home, she came to us," "and we are always with great interest in hunting and listened." "Simply stunning, just as he knows." "His and today you can listen to a clock - for three hours, five hours." "First of all, it's an incredible talent, incredible intellect, incredible memory." "His intelligence is simply beyond the scope of possibility." "He was the smartest kid in southern Poland before the war." "Before the war was carried out this experience - the first study of IQ." "And then, after the war, when the published results," "It turned out that Lem was the smartest kid in southern Poland." "Now I will not tell you exactly what he had IQ, but very high." "Krakow has become a place of my refuge." "I live here since 1945, that is, so has much of his life." "But nonetheless..." "Lions, as if to say, unchallenged." "It is no substitute for me has never been and can not be." "I have always been, and still am very much attached to Lvov." "Day before yesterday I received a postcard from the city with the monument to Mickiewicz, they do not dare to touch on the area, and for me this area" " St. Mary's, because as it was called, but as it is called now, I do not know and do not want to know." "I am a frequent visitor to Russia as a member of delegations, and I have repeatedly offered to visit the Lions " "I do not like at all, because there were only stones, and of the people is almost no one left." "I'm not very willing to think about it, because, when I start to talk about it, then a scar from the wound, which was delayed so many times," "It starts again torn apart and bleeding." "In past a huge stomach that absorbs everything, digests, and then remains a great Nothing." "It is very sad." "Perhaps those who can return to the city of his childhood, really happy people." "I can not." "It was as I had lived since birth in the street Brayerovskoy, 4, on the 2nd floor." "We were the bourgeoisie, we had a 6-bedroom apartment." "There was an office of his father, reception, office and so on." "I did not have my room, the balance was not quite so lucky." "I can now describe all the furniture, the carpet, where I read Warnego - although its story." "I graduated from high school, high school, in late June the 39th, the first of September and the war has already begun." "We were kicked out of the apartment the Polish army." "When put on our balcony gun, the mother decided that we should move in with his uncle, because such protection is our home it really scared." "So we had to move out into the street Sikstuskuyu." "There, on Sikstuskoy, I witnessed the most horrible spectacle." "I watched as artillery regiment moves out to the Citadel, stretched the entire length of the street Sikstuskoy - boxes of ammunition, guns, soldiers on horseback, artillery ..." "On the side streets suddenly went riding in the future and the Soviet soldiers' uniforms." "I do not know why, but they were all Mongols." "Everyone in his right hand was a revolver, and the left - the pomegranate." "They said our take off the belt, leave the ammunition, cannons, machine guns throw and just leave." "It was a terrible sight, because I felt that everything - the country is collapsing." "We all stood in silence and wept." "Very soon after the arrival of the Soviets, when my father was in the hospital, to our house came NKVDshnik, in uniform, who wanted to take the room." "His mother just put out." "And when the father returned, he is terribly frightened." "But then again NKVDshnik come and live with us really, ranked one of the best lounges." "And when he ran the belt, and so on," "I knew that the evening can be searched and expulsion of refugees." "Well, we were running with colleagues, all warned." "And when the Russian had fled from the Germans," "I walked into the room and saw that it almost filled up the whole sheet, written poetry." "It turned out that it was not NKVDshnik and poet." "But I must admit that I never read these verses." "I had zachёtka, I was a student, and I must say, students rarely resettled." "The Union sovetstkih allowed to go to higher education - the Germans as it was not possible, only underground." "But as Lviv, I do not know anything about that." "I wanted to work physically, because well, what could I do?" "I have nothing else could." "I did not have any special." "In German, I worked as a welder." "Here, of course, you need to add quotes." "Because all of these my "rations" my master, Pan Tadeusz," "I broke the five-kilogram hammer ..." "It was a harsh welder." "Well, I'm fired up to the point in this work, that when we arrived with his parents to Krakow in 1945," "I was told that I can get - now I do not remember how many, some large sum - working welder." "When I told this at home, it caused great fear and terror." "Everyone thought it would be a full drop that I should go on to teach medicine." "Well, in the end, I gave them to convince themselves." "One day" " I do not know if he loved me, but they say a fan of my work - some Ukrainians after the war" "He broke into my old apartment." "I have no idea who it was at the time he lived." "And photographed from different sides of the room in which I was born - there was such a stucco moldings in the form of leaves and acorns - and that could be seen from the windows." "Good afternoon." "We are with you near the apartment number 3," "Street, formerly known as Brayerovskoy, then" " Gala, and later" " Bogdan sculpting." "We live in apartment number 2, my mom moved here in 1939." "Mother told me that in our house on the 2nd floor, in apartment number 3 - it is here where we now stand - before the war, Dr. Lem had lived with his son Stanislav." "Lema occupied in the house the entire second floor." "On the left is the private quarters, ie the home of Dr. Lem" "Right - reception hall and an office of Dr. Lem, in which he took patients." "I began to study in 1945, and somewhere at the same time" "I went through all possible organizations, where I was greeted joyfully, something a little less happily pointed to the door with my graphomania." "I understand that they are doing everything right." "So in the end I managed to get in Tygodnik Powszechny." "They then worked Pyvovarchyk priest, Mrs Morstinova, Morstintgurska." "Editor Turovich - and now he is there." "Well, in this magazine, I debuted with his poems, then - with the stories." "Some of them even then printed in Germany." "Let's just say, not all that I wrote then, it was horrible." "That's how I started in 1946." "And in 1947, I had already begun to pressure." "And, in general, in Warsaw, I just said," "What if I do not stop to publish in the magazine Tygodnik Powszechny," "I can not even count on the publication they have their own stories." "The book, however, and so did not come out right up to 1954 or even 1955." "And so it was impossible to publish it." "It was the "Hospital of the Transfiguration."" "It was the only - perhaps not, but probably the only one - the book which, if I may say so, I "took away from my experience of occupation."" "Many people think that in it I actually describe their memories, that all the images in the book - they are real people." "But it was not" " I'm all up." "I've never been crazy, or a young doctor in a hospital for the mentally ill." "The only thing I can agree - that at the time I was often in Przegorzały." "And there near the shore there at the Wolski forest." "Very beautiful area." "And there's a crossroads where there is a cross." "And this cross, and this intersection are shown in the book." "And it is probably the only Nonfictional element." "I studied at the Faculty of Medicine, which is deliberately not finished," "I have not stuck to work in the army." "Well, in general, I left nothing." "After the war, during a trip to Czarny Staw, I accidentally met with such a high full guy who said his name Panski." "I had no idea that it was the head of the publishing house Czytelnik." "So I complained to him that Poland does not publish fiction, which I love so much." "And he at me and asks if I'll write him a story." "Actually, why not?" "At this all over." "But after a couple of weeks they sent me a contract with Czytelnik'a." "There was an empty space for the header." "Well, I took it and wrote: "astronauts"." "Generally no idea what I'll write." "Not a single thought." "Just I took it and wrote." "My close friend, a professor of Bologna, at the time said:" ""If Lem put in a bar, close the door and shovel constantly fed him bread and water, then he will do everything and write everything. "" "Well, in such harsh conditions as I can, of course, I did not set, but the fact remains that the story I wrote." "Of course, even without realizing report that this is the beginning of my so-called career as a writer, science fiction." "Actually I did not know." "You never know at the start how events will develop further." "All this coming marathon." "I have often compared the writing with the race - at a very long distance." "At the next circle of colleagues behind, and if someone runs, and runs, and runs, then it turns out that he once used to." "All accustomed." "Well, he has a sense of pride for this biological exposure, not just a writer." "It even Thomas Mann at the time said." "And then I started writing one book after another." "They began to disperse around the world." "At the time I wrote only 1/6 or even 1/7 of all that the result published in Poland." "The man who always something comes up on the debt profession, living in peace, one might even say prosaically, in Borku Faleńskim around Krakow." "Outside - an ordinary house, inscribed in the landscape in 1966." "Imagination and the future for the first time we have met here." "About typewriter pacing man from another planet." "On the machine is born a new story." "The author has fans and friends all over the world." "Sovetstkih astronauts sent him a group photo with captions" "Yegor - additional picture from space." "The first book, which brought him great success in his career, was the "Solaris"." "Well, "Solaris" has become a book, which today is referred to the canons." "No compendium devoted to fantasy or science fiction, not without "Solaris"." "Sometimes, as a preface to the whole list." "And it's something that has not yet been honored, no Polish book throughout history." "I personally can not think of any other product," "Among the most significant works of Polish, which would be a mandatory element of summarizing here." "It's a wonderful, very shrill novel." "He made a great impression on me." "As far as I know, no similar ideas in the stories of this kind are not met." "The whole planet is a brain, which creates a very realistic manner." "Not only fiction - it creates a real person." "The present situation." "The main character meets a girl, committed suicide." "Her brain created this planet." "It is a hair's breadth the same." "I was so struck by this novel that I went to the cinema to the film Tarkovsky." "Under the name "Solaris"." "Well, what can I say, Tarkovsky's film and book Lem - two completely different things." "Tarkovsky in the spotlight - the Earth." "Return to Earth." "And the rain, which, apparently," "It has a religious meaning." "Rain - the Holy Spirit." "That water that is poured on the characters." "Tarkovsky would not be a Russian citizen, if not priplёl in works of religious, mystical meaning." "He believed that the cosmos is terrible, you need to appreciate our stay on earth." "And that the whole ocean - one big nuisance." "While I thought it was a challenge to humanity, it is very interesting, although it may result in casualties." "Well, here we are talking with him, debated ... ended all that I said to him: "You fool!"" "Because I sat there for three weeks in Moscow and tried in vain to reason with him." "But he was stubborn, and I was stubborn!" "Well, I took it and went to Warsaw." "Translantatsiya, yeah." "But for some reason the insurance companies refuse to pay?" "I'll ask this question!" "It is necessary to make them!" "Let them pay!" "Widow is?" "There is." "Do you have children?" "There is." "I am?" "Of course." "That's why I got into debt." "A week should send a new pilot." "The only film of my books, which I think is good " "This Przekładaniec, short film by Andrzej Wajda." "Decent movie was filmed there Bogumil Male " "It was probably one of his best roles." "In addition, this film is clearly something there, times to the present day, he periodically appears on television." "Hence, all this frenzy transplants, and the prosthetic man relevant as problematic." "Of course, relevant, obviously." "Soon I began to defend himself in front of the directors, because I had the feeling that I have given them no right to interfere in what they are doing there." "In the meantime, I'll write the work, the person responsible for what is written in them." "Could there be a better movie?" "Maybe, yes." "But they are not." "Overall cinematography is getting worse and worse." "As I once wrote about contemporary cinema: "Dear girls are assassins without pity and without panties."" "I've been speaking more as a writer of stories that are set in the school house, such as my "Tales of Pirx the Pilot" or "Tales robots" for such ... more children." "While in Germany, I'm more a philosopher, with a variety of books on the topic of the philosophy of the future." "In America, I'm more like a programmer." "In general, I like the cake around the world cut into different pieces." "My books were quite large circulation - 27 or 28 million copies." "I myself have long do not do it." "I had to hire a secretary, who leads my archive." "At first, he gained popularity as a writer of science fiction." "In this capacity, he had millions of readers around the world." "But now Lem became known as "serious," the author, as the author, with whom debating about which they write their doctoral dissertations." "With that discuss leading scientists, Nobel Prize winners." "Some of his books - they are very hard!" "For example, Filozofia przypadku." "Many of them scratching their teeth." "Just this book is not for everyone." "This is a book for naukovedov philosophers." "Can they articulate a simple language?" "It is possible, but it turns out that it is not necessary." "This is the philosophy that if you do not understand it," "If you find it difficult - and throw themselves take something easier." "When Poland entered the military situation, I had to leave the country, because we were cut off from the world." "And things just froze." "My German publisher created for me a kind of refuge in Germany." "And I moved there." "Then I went to Vienna." "Together with my parents, we stayed there for 6 years." "And he is doing it with their deeds." "When Gewelt an article that supposedly Lem chose freedom," "I wrote that it was not true" " I was still a Polish passport," "I did not want to lose the opportunity to return." "And at that moment it seemed very bleak prospects." "At the Institute, I met a Hungarian immigrant, who told me," "I have to leave his family in Poland for good." "He always said:" "Now or never!" " Now or never!" "And this is my last chance." "From the perspective of external observers, who were Austrians," "I was supposed to be great." "I rented a house with a garden in one of the most beautiful areas of Vienna, very high, where the air was great." "With beautiful plum trees in the garden, flowers ..." "But we were not happy." "Poland was then under the regime of Jaruzelski, that just is not a good period." "But Vienna was and still is a Polish bookstore where you can make it easier than it is now, to find the necessary literature, even samizdat." "Material shortage we did not experience any, but not by bread alone is man alive." "Everything was as though good, but it certainly was not a fun time." "One journalist once said to me," "I supposedly came here to taste the sweetness of life." "So I thought I grab a fever." "THANK YOU, I say, for all those sweets!" "This country has not been a stranger to my wife's parents, and indeed to our fathers - because they were officers of the Austrian army." "Although both were Poles." "So that happened." "Now every ministry, which protects the interests of the country, called oberministerstvo" " Ministry of Defense." "And earlier called Kriegsministerium - the Ministry of War." "And this is the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of War we found all the necessary papers." "Shares of the military affairs of my father." "He was" " I can not remember what - "Golden Cross of Merit with Ribbon of the Order of something there ..."" "And, when I was a little boy, constantly playing with it." "In Lviv." "At the end of one of the main emigration of my studies was treatment." "I was operated on in Vienna two or three times." "Although I generally do not do it for themselves." "I have this kind of attitude around ..." "I'm in this regard stoic." "But my wife - that's for sure, I know" " I think that I have one foot in the grave." "But I somehow managed to climb out." "His Austrian period of life my wife and I remember quite gloomy." "But it was inevitable." "In '88 my wife said:" ""Listen, this Gorbachev's serious intentions to fix it."" "Well, we're back." "When I was in 1988 or '89 I stopped writing fiction, it was not motivated by the achievement of a certain age there." "I just realized that it no longer necessary to write fiction, and general fiction and I started doing something else." "I do not think it has something to do with age." "Well, that is obvious, that over the years the forces gradually leave." "I am with this, of course, I agree, because we all are immortal." "In 1988, it seems, well, or in 1987" "I wrote the last book." "It was Fiasko." "Well, I realized that enough is enough." "If I'm going to write any more, it is necessary to change the qualifications." "Enough already writing fiction." "Why is that?" "Well, I just did not want to." "The questions of this kind I have one answer: "Enough."" "It's like when you invite someone to visit." " That is, treat cake." " Thank you." " Maybe even a piece?" " With pleasure." " Hold the third, fourth, fifth ..." " Thank you, of course, but I'm hungry." "So I felt that I had enough." "I wrote what he wanted to write, and now I can do something else." "I think Lem ceased writing at a time when it is no longer interested." "That is no longer interested in drawing plot." "And there was a moment when he seemed to "clean" your desktop." "The last time was struggling to figure Pirks, which at first did not end up murdered, then I raised a little - but still not completely." "And finish this thing, still killing their hero." "The Fiasco." "Similarly, he did with Ijon Pacific, injuring him severely in the "Peace on Earth"." "Does it look as if he had decided to deal with their heroes and more of them are not used." "Since the Pacific with the "split" of the brain has definitely not the hero as he was before." "I have a feeling that when I started writing career," "I wrote to survive, earn something, so as not to break his life after he lost the chance to become a doctor." "And then (I have not come up with) my wife kept saying, that I had a sense of mission," "It has opened a lot of didactic intentions in my works." "The desire to bring something spiritual, that is a little bit to improve the world." "Obviously, this is nonsense, because it is impossible to improve the human world." "No one will be able to improve the world, neither the Pope nor me - without a difference." "The world goes on its own way." "Andrzej Kijowski (of blessed memory) once said:" ""Peace - a pig."" "The human world, of course." "I agree with that." "People generally behave pretty badly." "Adverse selection, leading upstairs," "It works now." "All people have different personalities, different charisma." "What about the human species as a whole, this is that the range of - character, temperament, characteristics - in our species, probably the biggest." "Obviously, every moth any flies behave very similar." "Likewise proteins." "Even dogs." "Between us is this huge gap, and I do not know whether we have already reached extremes." "Scientific progress constantly adds to our tools to effectively torturing others." "I've always been interested in history." "Not war, and all sorts of bloody battles, arranged people but only the geological epochs, from the dinosaurs 65 million years ago." "Perm crash 250 million years ago, wiped out almost all kinds in the world." "It was a cosmic intervention in the Earth's tide." "I feel that we are like mayflies, just a moment, fluttering over the huge space." "According to Christian beliefs is a few thousand years." "In comparison with the age of the Earth and the millions, billions of years - it's just a second on the clock of eternity." "Logically, I have a feeling." "But I have learned to think in this way and see that" "The Earth is a small grain, speck of dust in the cosmos." "In mathematics, set theory, astrophysics, cosmology" "If desired, you can find some very interesting types of shelters this feeling of being transience."