Highcastle
a remembrance
1st U.S. ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Kandel, Michael. - Contributor
Publication
1995 - Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
36,500 words, Guess
Page Count
146 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1276266M
- ISBN-100151402183
- OCLC Control Number32130624
- OCLC Control Numberhighcastlerememb0000lems
- Library of Congress Control Number95007882
and 2 more
- LibraryThing407522
- Goodreads1282669
Classifications
- DDC891.8/537
- LCCPG7158.L392 A3813 1995
Description
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.
First Sentence
DO YOU REMEMBER the inventory of mysterious things that the Lilliputians found in Gulliver's pockets?
Excerpt
DO YOU REMEMBER the inventory of mysterious things that the Lilliputians found in Gulliver's pockets?
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