KANDEL, Michael

KANDEL, Michael
(1941-)
   US writer, translator and book editor, best known until the late 1980s for his brilliant translations from the Polish of works by Stanislaw LEM, among them a pyrotechnic rendering of the novella "Kongres Futurologiczny" (1971 Poland) as The Futurological Congress (1974 US), many of whose wordplays are of necessity MK's. The Cosmic Carnival of Stanislaw Lem (coll 1981), which MK assembled, contains excerpts frompreviously translated novels plus some stories. MK's own novels reflect, perhaps, his immersion in the Eastern European tradition. STRANGE INVASION (1989) describes, with dissecting humour, an alien tourist invasion ofEarth. In Between Dragons (1990) subjects a fantasy-game-like universe to an equally wry analysis. Captain Jack Zodiac (1991), in a fashion reminiscent of the way post- HOLOCAUST traumas were surreally ignored in The BED-SITTING ROOM , exposes its zany cast to a USA gone terminallyinsane after the Bomb has been dropped.
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