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.
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