Stanislaw Lem - Solaris

In a direct translation from Polish, Solaris (1961) is one of the most complex and philosophical works of science fiction, and I would consecrate Stanislaw Lem (1926-2006) as a cult author. Published in Warsaw during the communist regime and adapted for the cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and Steven Soderbergh in 2002, it is dominated by an immense and enigmatic planetary ocean, capable of controlling the emotions and memories of explorers on the brink of madness, isolated on a space station.

In this psychological novel about incommunicability, anguish in the face of the unfathomable, and the human inability to deal with the unknown without causing destruction, Stanislaw Lem takes us to a distant planet to reveal the eternal abysses and black holes of the soul.