„[…] fałszywe tropy, zwodnicze, mylące pociągnięcia tego, kto stał niewidzialny, za całą tą sprawą”. Poetyka kryminału w Przyjacielu Stanisława Lema
„[…] false tropes, deceptive, misleading pulls by the invisible one who stayed behind all this”. The poetics of crime in Friend by Stanisław Lem

Author(s): Łukasz Kucharczyk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Stanislaw Lem; genre conventions; crime story; anti-crime story;science fiction;
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the specificity of crime novels by Stanislaw Lem and presents the analysis of his short story Friend. The text begins with Lem’s views on contemporary crime stories and puts forward a most appropriate shape, which – in Lem’s opinion – model detective stories should take. After the presentation of the research conducted on Lem’s crime novels, I proceed to analyse Friend, the text that bears imprints of Lem’s future anti‑crime stories as well as displays certain relation with deconstruction.

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