Jess <
jjnevins@ix.netcom.com> noted: "Well, sure. But the
Soviets were never known for being open to original thinkers,
and while there is the rare exception of mysteries and
thrillers being published in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc
countries post-WW2 and pre-1990s, there aren't many--the
Soviet novel that features a Russian super-agent foiling
James Bond, the few East German pulps from the 1950s, but not
a whole lot others that I know of. There were certainly
samizdat reprints of Western material, and lots of
unauthorized, underground pastiches, like the endless Tarzan
spin-offs and the many Gone With The Wind "sequels," but--as
far as I know--not a whole lot published with the imprimatur
of the state.
"If I'm wrong, of course, I'd
love to know about it, especially if you can give me the
names of books or articles on the subject."
OK. It seems to me if Poland had Lem
in sf in this era and all those movies, it should have had
mysteries, too. I'll ask my father-in-law. Jerzy Kosinski
wrote the noirest short story I've ever read--I still get
nightmares 20 years later--but that was after he learned
English. I don't know if he published anything in Polish or,
if so, what.
Joy
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