Highcastle: A Remembrance

A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.With Highcastle, Stanislaw Lem...
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Author: Stanislaw Lem
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Highcastle: A Remembrance by Lem, Stanislaw

Highcastle: A Remembrance

$502.43

Highcastle: A Remembrance

$502.43
Author: Stanislaw Lem
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.

With Highcastle, Stanislaw Lem offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in prewar Lvov. Reflective, artful, witty, playful--"I was a monster," he observes ruefully--this lively and charming book describes a youth spent reading voraciously (he was especially interested in medical texts and French novels), smashing toys, eating pastries, and being terrorized by insects. Often lonely, the young Lem believed that he could communicate with household objects--perhaps anticipating the sentient machines in the adult Lem's novels. Lem reveals his younger self to be a dreamer, driven by an unbridled imagination and boundless curiosity.

In the course of his reminiscing, Lem also ponders the nature of memory, innocence, and the imagination. Highcastle (the title refers to a nearby ruin) offers the portrait of a writer in his formative years.



Author: Stanislaw Lem
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 02/18/2020
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780262538466

About the Author
Lem, Stanislaw: - Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006), a writer called "worthy of the Nobel Prize" by the New York Times, was an internationally renowned author of novels, short stories, literary criticism, and philosophical essays. His books have been translated into forty-four languages and have sold more than thirty million copies.

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