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Wyprawa profesora Tarantogi

Literal: Professor Tarantoga’s voyage

by Stanisław Lem

Oh, tensor! Oh, turbulent perturbation! Some time before Professor Tarantoga invented a time machine and met a schizophrenic man from the fourth millennium, he apparently invented a transporter that took him and his new assistant Chybek to a series of progressively more advanced civilizations, the last of which included a barefaced cook who had an embarrasing accident in the cosmic kitchen, resulting in mankind (and indirectly resulting in time travel for the professor and Chybek).
— Michael Main
I znów mi się przypaliło—jedno spiralne ramie, od spodu, na trzysta parseków—i znowu wybiegła mi słonecznica, i ścięło się, i będzie zgęstek, i powstanie białko, przeklęte białko! I znowu będzie ewolucja, i ludzkość, i cywilizacja, i będę się musiał tłumaczyć, usprawiedliwiać, składać we dwoje, przepraszać, że to niechcący, że przez przypadek . . . Ale to wy, nie ja!
And I got burned again—one spiral arm, underneath, three hundred parsecs—and again a sunflower came out of me and it was choked and there will be a bundle of white, cursed protein! And there will be evolution again, and humanity and civilization, and I will have to justify, justify, put together, apologize that it’s accidentally, that by accident . . .
English
DEBUT
[ex=bare]Wyprawa profesora Tarantogi: Widowisko w sześciu częściach | Professor Tarantoga’s voyage: A television show in six parts[/ex], in Noc księżycowa (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1963).
VARIANTS
0 English variants
TRANSLATIONS
Translations to German, Russian
DERIVATIVE WORKS
  1. Die seltsamen Begegnungen des Prof. Tarantoga [writer unknown], directed by Charles Kerremans, (ZDF, West Germany, 4 December 1978).
TAGS(SPOILERS!)
Time Periods Timeline Models
  • Time Loop: Certainly the story relates a clever time loop, although it never explains how Tarantoga gets out of the loop for his later adventures.
Time Travel Methods Fictional Tags Groupings
TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)
  1. From the professor’s office, 27 April 1961 ⋙ to the professor’s office, 27 April 1951. Note: Seems like a time loop, but we don’t know how it is ever broken.
INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)
  • 1964 Russian translation—The Russian translation, <em><a href='%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8_%3A%3A_Puteshestviye_professora_Tarantogi'>Путешествие профессора Тарантоги :: Puteshestviye professora Tarantogi</a></em> (Professor Tarantoga’s voyage), appears to be a straight-up translation of the 1963 Polish script that was similarly published as a script. Because it is a direct translation, we list it here as a variant rather than listing it as a separate work in its own right (as we would do if it were a remake adapted to a new language). Please see <a href='https%3A%2F%2Ffantlab.ru%2Fwork94741'>FantLab</a> and <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ozon.ru%2Fproduct%2Fna-sushe-i-na-more-1965-5807890%2F'>Ozon</a>.
  • 1975 German translation—The German translation, <em>Die Forschungsreise des Professors Tarantoga</em> (Professor Tarantoga’s voyages), appears to be a straight-up translation of the 1963 Polish script that was similarly published as a script. Because it is a direct translation, we list it here as a variant rather than listing it as a separate work in its own right (as we did with the German remake <a href='6663'>Die seltsamen Begenungen des Professor Tarantoga</a>.
  • Alternative Russian Title—The plural title <a href='%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8_%3A%3A_Puteshestviya_professora_Tarantogi'>Путешествия профессора Тарантоги :: Puteshestviya professora Tarantogi</a> (Professor Tarantoga’s journeys) is explicitly given at <a href='http%3A%2F%2Fdictionary.sensagent.com%2F%25D0%2591%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B1%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B8%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B3%25D1%2580%25D0%25B0%25D1%2584%25D0%25B8%25D1%258F_%25D0%25A1%25D1%2582%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B8%25D1%2581%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B0_%25D0%259B%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BC%25D0%25B0%2Fru-ru%2F'>sensagent</a> and elsewhere, but we cannot cite any actual releases.