An edition of Highcastle: a remembrance (1995)

Highcastle

a remembrance

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An edition of Highcastle: a remembrance (1995)

Highcastle

a remembrance

1st U.S. ed.

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Stanislaw Lem's Highcastle is at once a remembrance and a meditation. Even as Lem gives an account of his childhood in Lvov in the years between the two world wars, he ponders the nature of memory, innocence, and the imagination.

His recollections of growing up the son of a bourgeois doctor at Number 4 Brajerska Street are stunningly evocative, re-creating with acuity a boy's perception of the world around him: his gossipy French tutor; the magical window of Zalewski's Confectionery; his father's anatomy books and carefully hidden French pornography; a trip to Klaften's Toy Shop; an aborted visit to a tattooed lady at the Eastern Fair; the trams, organ grinders, and halvah stands of Lvov.

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Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Language
English
Pages
146

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Subjects

Childhood and youth, Biography, Polish Authors, Lem, stanislaw, 1921-2006, Ukraine, biography, Authors, polish

People

Stanisław Lem

Places

Lʹviv (Ukraine)

Times

20th century
Edition Availability
Cover of: Highcastle
Highcastle: A Remembrance
January 28, 1997, Harvest Books
in English
Cover of: Highcastle
Highcastle: a remembrance
1995, Harcourt, Brace & Co.
in English - 1st U.S. ed.

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Edition Notes

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book".

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.8/537, B
Library of Congress
PG7158.L392 A3813 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 146 p. ;
Number of pages
146

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1276266M
Internet Archive
highcastlerememb0000lems
ISBN 10
0151402183
LCCN
95007882
OCLC/WorldCat
32130624
Library Thing
407522
Goodreads
1282669

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2683578W

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DO YOU REMEMBER the inventory of mysterious things that the Lilliputians found in Gulliver's pockets?
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