Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.
Bezig met laden... Highcastle: A Remembrance (1966)door Stanisław Lem
Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Autobiografía de juventud. A la vez semblanza íntima y original testimonio sobre la Europa que nació tras la primera Guerra Mundial. ( ) Despite being by Stanislaw Lem, this isn't a sf tale, but a memoir of his childhood. Lem grew up in Poland during the 1920s and 30s, and he certainly was a precocious child, making this an entertaining read, as he destroys his toys for the sheer fun of it, wanders the parks of his home town, runs afoul of his father, and invents entire worlds for himself in the form of bureaucratic papers. I was disappointed to realize it covered very little from World War II (just a few rumblings and precursors), but as that was undoubtedly set his childhood apart from his adulthood, I can scarcely complain. A quick, enjoyable read, with a few nuggets of insight to boot. (originally written December 2007) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Bibliothek Suhrkamp (405)
A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanisław Lem. With Highcastle, Stanisław 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)891.8537Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Polish Polish fiction 1919–1989LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |