A remembrance

✍ Jay N. Zemel 📂 Article 📅 1986 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 83 KB

A Remembrance

✍ Stanislaw Lem 📂 Fiction 🏛 MIT Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 88 KB

**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 d

A Remembrance

✍ William J. Horvath and Martin L. Ernst 📂 Article 📅 1986 🏛 INFORMS 🌐 English ⚖ 320 KB

Highcastle - A Remembrance

✍ Lem, Stanislaw 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🌐 English ⚖ 101 KB

He describes his endless search for confectionery treats in his bourgeois parents' sprawling Lvov apartment; his father's anatomy books and hidden French pornography; his after-school life as an aspiring inventor; the mandatory "game" of schoolyard military maneuvers on the threshold of World War II

Highcastle - A Remembrance

✍ Lem, Stanislaw 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🌐 English ⚖ 86 KB

He describes his endless search for confectionery treats in his bourgeois parents' sprawling Lvov apartment; his father's anatomy books and hidden French pornography; his after-school life as an aspiring inventor; the mandatory "game" of schoolyard military maneuvers on the threshold of World War II

Highcastle A Remembrance

✍ Stanislaw Lem 📂 Fiction 🏛 MIT Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 87 KB

**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 d