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'Highcastle: A Remembrance' is a coming-of-age autobiographical novel by Polish science fiction writer Stanisaw Lem.Irene Sywenky, "Spaces of Unhomeliness: Rereading Post-Imperial Urban Heterotopias in East Central Europe", In: , Written in 1965, it was first published in 1966 by Wydawnictwo MON.

It is a memoir of Lem's childhood and youth years spent in the interwar Lww (then a Polish city, present-day Lviv in Ukraine), with a good deal of philosophical musing on memory, imagination, and the impact of earlier years on later life. The novel title is a reference to the ruins of Lviv High Castle.

Lem (as well as many critics) stated that the work is not a novel, in the sense that it does not have any fictional elements.[https://solaris.lem.pl/ksiazki/beletrystyka/wysoki-zamek/140-komentarz-wysoki-zamek Lem's commentary on 'Wysoki Zamek]

It was translated into English by Michael Kandel in 1995. In 2000, MIT Press reprinted it on the occasion of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the writer's birth in 1921.Andrew Liptak, [https://www.tor.com/2020/03/03/stanislaw-lem-mit-press-reissue-polish-science-fiction-translation/ "Beyond Solaris: New Editions Explore the Many Facets of SF Icon Stanislaw Lem"], March 3, 2020[https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/stanislaw-lem "Stanisaw Lem"] , MIT Press

It was also translated into Russian (1969), Bulgarian (1985) and Ukrainian (2002).[https://www.fantlab.ru/work3124 " - "], 'fantlab.ru'

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Category:Novels by Stanisaw Lem

Category:1966 novels

Category:Autobiographical novels


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