From October 11, 2011, to January 11, 2012, at the National Library of Belarus (3rd floor, circular hall) runs a one book exhibition „Stanisław Lem. Solaris”.
In 2011, both the 90th anniversary of world-known fantast Stanislaw Lem and the 50th anniversary of his immortal work are celebrated.
The novel “Solaris” appeared in 1961 to become the apotheosis of the writer’s life work. This fantastic philosophical novel is about relations between future humans and the “intelligent ocean” of planet Solaris. In the book the author contemplates the questions of philosophy, human existence, ethics, objective reality and God. In the foreword to the Russian edition of the novel (1963) Lem wrote: «Solaris could have been a model of the meeting of mankind with an unknown and unintelligible phenomenon on their way to the stars… But I didn’t write a theoretical abstract treatise and that was why I had to tell an absolutely concrete story in order to express through it one simple idea: “The unknown is waiting for us in the stars”».
The exhibition “Stanisław Lem. Solaris” presents 56 different editions of this book from the collection of researcher of Lem’s life and career Victor Yaznevich, and also 7 books from the stocks of the National Library of Belarus. This is editions of the novel “Solaris” in 24 languages: Polish, Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Serbian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Roumanian, German, English, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Georgian and Japanese.
The novel “Solaris” was thrice adapted into movies: in 1968 by director Boris Nirenburg (a television film, the USSR); in 1972 by Andrei Tarkovsky (the USSR); and in 2002 by Stephen Soderberg (the USA). The book was also adapted into theatrical plays (1987, Great Britain; 2005, FRG, Dusseldorf; 2009, Poland, Warsaw), opera (1996, FRG, Munich) and ballet (1990, the USSR, Dnepropetrovsk). The exposition presents materials dedicated to screen adaptations of the famous novel.
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