Ijon Tichy
Ijon Tichy (Polish pronunciation: [ˈijɔn ˈtixɨ]) is a fictional character who appears in several works of the Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem: initially in The Star Diaries, later in The Futurological Congress, Peace on Earth, Observation on the Spot, and Memoirs of a Space Traveller (more stories from The Star Diaries, issued in English translation as a separate volume).[1] Tichy is also the narrator in a 1973 novel Professor A. Dońda, being the professor's sidekick.
Character
Tichy is a
Tichy himself is the narrator in all the stories in which he appears. Sometimes he is the protagonist; sometimes he merely serves to introduce some other character who has a story to tell. He is unmarried, usually well-meaning, accident-prone, and commendably honest about his failures, which include (thanks to another unfortunate experience with time) the entire Universe as we know it.
Stories
The Tichy stories are mostly comic or
Genealogy
A genealogical sketch of Tichy family is given in Lem's
- Anonymus, the founder of the main Tichy family branch. He is surrounded by a mystery, including the origins of the surname. Some say it was Anonym's cognomen, arising from the fact he did not say a word during the trial on an accusation of eating his twin and in fact it should be "Cichy" ("quiet" in Polish) rather than Tichy, but the notary lisped...[4][5]
- Jeremiasz Tichy, grandfather of Ijon, famous for the fact that he "decided to create the General Theory of Everything, and nothing stopped him from doing this".[6]
In film
German TV series
On 26 March 2007, the
Asteroids
Other
See article The Star Diaries for more.
In addition, in the 1965 Polish science fiction short Przyjaciel ["The Friend"][11] based on the story with the same name from the collection An Invasion from Aldebaran the narrator's name is engineer Tichy.
References
- ^ "Stanislaw Lem Bibliography".
- ^ Marcin Wołk, "Nie być Indiotą. O „Dziennikach gwiazdowych” Stanisława Lema", In: "Od Lema do Sienkiewicza (z Ingardenem w tle). Prace literaturoznawcze ofiarowane Profesorowi Andrzejowi Stoffowi w siedemdziesiątą rocznicę urodzin", Toruń 2017
- ^ McIrvin, Matt. "Star Diaries". VITRIFAX. Archived from the original on 2007-05-23.
- Star Diaries, "The Twenty-eighth Voyage"
- ^ "Ijon Tichy", at Stanisław Lem's official website
- ^ Krzysztof J. Kilian, Sny o teoriach ostatecznych a problem przyszłości filozofii, ("Dreams about Ultimate Theories and the Problem of the Future of Philosophy") ΣΟΦΙΑ, no. 8, 2008
- ^ zdf.de Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot Archived 2012-01-16 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- ^ "Serialowa adaptacja Lema w Berlinie", Gazeta.pl, 2007-02-14 (retrieved July 24, 2013).
- ^ "343000 Ijontichy".
- ^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser".
- IMDb
External links
- Ijon Tichy at Stanisław Lem's official site
- Ijon Tichy at IMDb
- Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot streaming video site (in German)