# Highcastle

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'''''Highcastle: A Remembrance''''' ({{langx|pl|Wysoki Zamek}}) is a [coming-of-age](/source/Coming-of-age_story) autobiographical novel by Polish science fiction writer [Stanisław Lem](/source/Stanis%C5%82aw_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](/source/Wydawnictwo_MON).

It is a memoir of Lem's childhood and youth years spent in the [interwar](/source/interwar) [Lwów](/source/Lviv) (then a [Polish](/source/Second_Polish_Republic) 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](/source/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](/source/Michael_Kandel) in 1995. In 2000, [MIT Press](/source/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](/source/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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