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''Highcastle: A Remembrance'' () is a
coming-of-age Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. It can be a simple legal convention or can b ...
autobiographical novel by Polish science fiction writer
Stanisław Lem Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fi ...
.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 In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period, also known as the interbellum (), lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II ( ...
Lwów Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...
(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 The Lviv High Castle (, ; ) is a historic castle located on the top of the Castle Hill of the city of Lviv, Ukraine. It is currently the highest point in the city, above sea level. The castle currently stands in ruins. The High Castle is prox ...
. 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. It was translated into English by
Michael Kandel Michael Kandel (born 24 December 1941, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American translator and author of science fiction. Biography Kandel received a doctorate in Slavistics from Indiana University. His most recent position was editor at the ...
in 1995. In 2000,
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reprinted it on the occasion of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the writer's birth in 1921.Andrew Liptak
"Beyond Solaris: New Editions Explore the Many Facets of SF Icon Stanislaw Lem"
March 3, 2020
It was also translated into Russian (1969), Bulgarian (1985) and Ukrainian (2002)."Станислав Лем - Высокий Замок"
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1966 novels Autobiographical novels Novels by Stanisław Lem Novels set in Poland Novels set in Ukraine Polish novels {{Poland-stub