The Investigation

The study is one of the few detective novels, who wrote the first famous by his science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem novels. The book, in Lem's earlier literary phase emerged (1957 /58), but is already showing on Lem's style to use scientific elements - here the conventional environment of a detective novel along with inspector and track search to statistical phenomena is extended. The strictly rational criminologist is recognized on a case that is with logic does not seem to solve.

Action

On several cemeteries in England move in front of her funeral corpses or disappear. The evidence points in all cases indicate (partial temporary ) resurrections, although it is impossible from a medical perspective. A police detective to the operations of which is not even clear whether it is at all is a crime with the perpetrators of them enlighten, and entangled always more in his own confused thoughts. The committee will be to the side, which develops with the help of mathematics some extremely obscure theories a strange statistics expert.

Expenditure

• Stanislaw Lem: Śledztwo. Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, Warszawa 1959
• Stanislaw Lem: The Investigation. ( German translation by Jens Reuter and Hans Juergen Mayer) Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1975

Films

Science fiction works: 1951 Astronauci (Eng. The Planet of Death, 1954) | 1955 Obłok Magellana (German guest in Space, 1956) | 1957 Dzienniki gwiazdowe (Eng. The Star Diaries, 1961) | 1960 Eden (Eng. 1960) | Solaris 1961 | 1961 Powrót z Gwiazd (Eng. transfer, 1974) | 1964 Niezwyciężony (Eng. The Invincible, 1967) | 1964 Bajki robotów (Eng. Mortal, 1969) | 1965 Cyberiada (German Cyberiad, 1983) | 1968 Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie (German pilot Pirx, 1978) | 1968 Glos Pana (Eng. the voice of the Lord, 1981) | 1969 Opowiadania (Eng. night and Schimmel, 1976) | 1971 Congress futurologiczny (Eng. the futurological Congress, 1974) | 1981 Zagadka (Eng. The Riddle ) | 1981 Golem XIV (Eng. Thus Spoke Golem, 1984) | 1982 Wizja Lokalna (German Lokaltermin, 1985) | 1987 fiasco

Various: 1957 Dialogi (German Dialogues, 1980) | 1959 Śledztwo (Eng. The study, 1975) | 1971 Doskonała proznia (Eng. Perfect Vacuum, 1973 The absolute vacuum, 1984) | 1973 wielkość urojona, (German Imaginary size, 1976) | 1964 Summa Technologiae (Eng. 1976) | 1976 Qatar (Eng. the sniffles 1976) | 1983 One Human minute, (Eng. A minute of humanity, 1983)

Filmed: 1960 The Silent Star | 1963 Ikarie XB 1 | 1968 Solaris | Solaris 1972 | 1973 examination | 1978 test flight to Saturn | 2002 Solaris | 2007/2011 Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot

• Literary work
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( Polish)
• Crime Fiction
• Works by Stanisław Lem