Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg

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Adam wiśniewski-snerg (* 1. January 1937 in Plock , † 23. August 1995 in Warsaw ) was a Polish science fiction - writers .

Life

Wiśniewski-Snerg lost his parents very early and was raised by an aunt along with his older brother Stanisław. He had lived in Warsaw since he was eleven , where he continued his self-taught education after attending primary school. Shortly after World War II, his family was further decimated when Stanisław was sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly resisting communism. Wiśniewski-Snerg never graduated from high school and was unable to start studying. In 1968 he published his first story Anonymous in the magazine "Kamena". His first novel Robot , published in 1973 , was voted the most important Polish science fiction novel since 1945 by Polish science fiction readers. Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg is considered the best Polish science fiction author after Stanisław Lem . Without attracting much attention from scientists, he tried the unified field theory . His book Jednolita teoria czasoprzestrzeni (such as Unified Theory of Space-Time , a contribution to theoretical physics in which he rejects Einstein's theories) was not published, so he had it printed in 1990 at his own expense.

Adam wiśniewski-snerg committed 1995 suicide . Some of his works were only published posthumously .

Since important motifs of his novels The Ark and The Gospel according to Lump reappear in the Matrix films (only the protagonist recognizes the pretended nature of reality, all people play a predetermined role in a secret script), there have been several discussions about them among Polish readers whether the Wachowski siblings used ideas from Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg in their film trilogy.

Fellow writer Janusz A. Zajdel took the highly intelligent Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg as a model for the character of Adi Cherryson, known as Sneer, who in Zajdel's dystopia Limes inferior (1982, German 1993) helps others to outsmart the IQ tests of a surveillance state.

bibliography

Novels
  • Robot (1973)
    • German: Robot. Translated by Halina and Gerhard Meiser from the text of the second edition, which was slightly shortened and improved by the author. Heyne, Munich, 1981, ISBN 3-453-30717-8 .
  • Według łotra (1978)
    • English: The Gospel According to Lump. Translated by Rudolf J. Retz. Heyne, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-453-30840-9 .
  • Nagi cel (1980)
    • German: Naked goal. Translated by Hanna Rottensteiner. Heyne, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-453-03455-4 .
  • Arka (1985)
    • German: Die Arche. Translated by Hanna Rottensteiner. Heyne, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-453-07239-1 .
  • Oro (1998)
  • Trzecia cywilizacja (1998)
  • Jednolita teoria czasoprzestrzeni (1990)
collection
  • Anioł Przemocy i inne opowiadania (2001)
Short stories
  • Anonim (1968)
  • Byle Podmuchem Losu (1969)
  • Tamten świat (1975)
  • Anioł przemocy (1978)
    • German: Angel of Violence. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story-Reader 16. Translated by Hanna Rottensteiner. Heyne, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-453-30720-8 .
  • Oaza (1979)
    • German: The oasis. In: Klaus Staemmler (Ed.): Phantasma: Polish stories from this and that world. Translated by Klaus Staemmler. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-518-37326-9 .
  • Mind Consumption [German] (1981) [only as by Adam Wiśnewski-Snerg]
  • Rozdwojenie (1995)
    • German: Gespalten. 1997 In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Last Bastions: International Science Fiction Stories. Translated by Hanna Rottensteiner. Heyne, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12659-9 .
  • Dzikus (1997)
  • Przerwany film (1998)
  • Ciąg zdarzeń (2001)
  • Dekoracja (Przypadki rycerza bladego a ponurego) (2001)
  • Na skraju nocy (2001)
  • Otępienie (2001)
  • Potęga hipnozy (2001)
  • Seks versus instrukcja (2001)
  • Sonda (2001)
  • Teoria genitonów (2001)
  • Zapowiedź rysy (2001)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hans J. Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn and Wolfgang Jeschke (eds.): Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Volume 1, Heyne, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-01063-9 , p. 663
  2. ↑ Alpers / Fuchs / Hahn / Jeschke (eds.): Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Extended and updated new edition in one volume, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 1065
  3. ^ A b Ivan Adamovic: Adam Wisniewski-Snerg. (Obituaries) In: Charles N. Brown: Locus. Issue 420, January 1996, p. 66
personal data
SURNAME Wiśniewski-Snerg, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Plock
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1995
Place of death Warsaw