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Highcastle

Highcastle: A Remembrance ( ) is a coming-of-age autobiographical novel by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem. 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. The novel title is a reference to the ruins of Lviv High Castle. 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. 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. It was also translated into Russian (1969), German (1974), Bulgarian (1985), Ukrainian (2002) and Croatian (2026).

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Highcastle: A Remembrance ( ) is a coming-of-age autobiographical novel by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem. 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. The novel title is a reference to the ruins of Lviv High Castle. 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. 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. It was also translated into Russian (1969), German (1974), Bulgarian (1985), Ukrainian (2002) and Croatian (2026).

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  1. publication date: 1966 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "1966". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378518529

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