![]() (For more information about Tarkovsky and his film, see. The great Russian experimental director Andrei Tarkovsky made an important film based on the novel which is considerably more confusing that the book. There is a deep strain of irony which runs through this work, for all its occasionally grim moments. ![]() ![]() Solaris comes closer to being a traditional SF novel than most of his works, but its main thrust is still philosophical. Western readers not familiar with this tradition often misread his works, expecting more action-oriented, technophilic fiction. Although he read Western SF when he was young, he soon found it shallow and turned for inspiration to the long tradition of Eastern European philosophical fantasy. During the Soviet era, Polish writer Stanislaw Lem was the most celebrated SF author in the Communist world. ![]()
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