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Lazar Lagin

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Lazar Yosifovych Lagin was the pen name of Lazar Ginzburg . He was a Soviet author of children's and science fiction books.

Lagin is best known for his book Starik Hottabych , a fairy tale telling the story of a genie who is freed from captivity by a Soviet schoolboy. The genie, as is to be expected, has some trouble in adapting to modern life values and technological development.

Lagin's science fiction novels are set in imaginary Western "Capitalist" countries and satirize misuse of scientific inventions in bourgeois society. His novella Major Well Andyou is a satiric sequel to H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.

Lagin was also a screenplay writer, producing, for instance, the screenplay for the 1967 animation film Passion of Spies.

Lazar Lagin

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Lazar Yosifovych Lagin was the pen name of Lazar Ginzburg . He was a Soviet author of children's and science fiction books.

Lagin is best known for his book Starik Hottabych , a fairy tale telling the story of a genie who is freed from captivity by a Soviet schoolboy. The genie, as is to be expected, has some trouble in adapting to modern life values and technological development.

Lagin's science fiction novels are set in imaginary Western "Capitalist" countries and satirize misuse of scientific inventions in bourgeois society. His novella Major Well Andyou is a satiric sequel to H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.

Lagin was also a screenplay writer, producing, for instance, the screenplay for the 1967 animation film Passion of Spies.

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