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'Czas nieutracony' (title variously translated as 'Time Not Wasted', 'Time Not Lost', or 'Time Saved') is a trilogy novel of Stanisaw Lem in the style of Socialist realism. First published in 1955, it consists of the novels 'Hospital of the Transfiguration,' 'Among the Dead' ("Wrd umarych"), and 'Return' ("Powrt").
The first volume was finished in 1948, to be published by Gebethner i Wolff publisher, but it was stopped by censorship.Stanisaw Bere, [http://wkajt.republika.pl/acta/beres4.htm "Inteligent w Domu Wariatw: (soc)realistyczna trylogia Stanisawa Lema"], 'Acta Lemiana Monashiensis', a special edition of 'Acta Polonica Monashiensis', vol. 2, no. 2, 2002, Monash University Lem recalls endless travels to Warsaw to appease the censors,[http://solaris.lem.pl/ksiazki/beletrystyka/szpital-przemienienia/125-komentarz-szpital Lem's commentary about the 'Hospital of Transfiguration'] but eventually he had to add two more parts, and as a result the trilogy was published three times (1955, 1957, and 1965).
'Hospital of the Transfiguration', finished in 1948, is a psychodrama about a young doctor, Stefan Trzyniecki, who worked in a psychiatric hospital during the Nazi occupation of Poland in the Second World War.
'Among the Dead', finished in 1949, is the story of a young mathematical genius, Karol Wilk, who works in an automobile shop. Professors want so save his talent against the war, but he wants to join the resistance. In an interview, Lem says that the story was based on his own experience of the time: after the school he worked in car shops, and had contacts with the underground.Stanisaw Lem, Tomasz Fiakowski, "wiat na krawdzi. Ze Stanisawem Lemem rozmawia Tomasz Fiakowski", 'Wydawnictwo Literackie', Krakw, 2000, p. 44. In 2005 a part of this book, 'Operation "Reinhardt"', was published in the collection volume ' of Lem's complete works, a tale about the Nazi plan for the deportation of Polish Jews into extermination camps and how it was being executed.
The novel 'Return' was finished in 1950. An excerpt from it, 'Dyur doktora Trzynieckiego' ("Call Duty of Doctor Trzyniecki"), was also published in 'Lata czterdzieste. Dyktanda' (2005).
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Category:Novels by Stanisaw Lem
Category:1955 novels
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