{{Short description|Noval by Stanisław Lem}} {{other uses}} {{italic title}} '''''Highcastle: A Remembrance''''' ({{langx|pl|Wysoki Zamek}}) is a coming-of-age autobiographical novel by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem.<ref name=iresy>Irene Sywenky, "Spaces of Unhomeliness: Rereading Post-Imperial Urban Heterotopias in East Central Europe", In: {{Google books|6O4_DwAAQBAJ|Crossing Central Europe: Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000|page=127 }}, {{JSTOR|10.3138/j.ctt1whm94t.9}}</ref> 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 Lwów (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.<ref name=Liptak/><ref name=iresy/> The novel title is a reference to the ruins of Lviv High Castle.<ref name=iresy/>
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.<ref>[https://solaris.lem.pl/ksiazki/beletrystyka/wysoki-zamek/140-komentarz-wysoki-zamek Lem's commentary on ''Wysoki Zamek'']</ref>
It was translated into English by Michael Kandel in 1995. In 2000, MIT Press reprinted it on the occasion of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the writer's birth in 1921.<ref name=Liptak>Andrew Liptak, [https://www.tor.com/2020/03/03/stanislaw-lem-mit-press-reissue-polish-science-fiction-translation/ "Beyond Solaris: New Editions Explore the Many Facets of SF Icon Stanislaw Lem"], March 3, 2020</ref><ref>[https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/stanislaw-lem "Stanisław Lem"], MIT Press</ref>
It was also translated into Russian (1969), Bulgarian (1985) and Ukrainian (2002).<ref>[https://www.fantlab.ru/work3124 "Станислав Лем - Высокий Замок"], ''fantlab.ru''</ref>
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