The Golem

By Gustav Meyrink, Hugo Steiner-Prag, Madge Pemberton

Most renowned supernatural novel in sleek ecu literature, set in Ghetto of previous Prague round 1890. A compelling tale of mystical reviews, unusual changes, profound terror. thirteen black-and-white illustrations.

"A beautifully atmospheric tale set within the previous Prague ghetto that includes The Golem, a type of rabbinical Frankenstein's monster, which manifests iitself each 33 years in a room with no door. Stranger nonetheless, it kind of feels to have an identical face because the narrator. Made right into a movie in 1920, this awesome booklet combines uncanny psychology of doppelganger tales with expressionism and greater than a bit melodrama... Meyrink's previous Prague - like Dicken's London - is without doubt one of the nice creations of urban writing, an eerie, claustrophobic and fantastical underworld the place something can happen." -- Phil Baker within the Sunday Times

About the writer

Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932) chanced on around the world severe and advertisement acclaim together with his first novel The Golem (1915), which ahead of the Dedalus Meyrink programme has been the single paintings on hand in English. It verified his popularity because the grasp of the occult and the grotesque.(He used to be the German translator of Dickens). His popularity declined in his final years yet his paintings is now being reassessed in Germany & Austria, and he's now regarded as probably the most very important German language novelists of the 20 th century. He has been defined because the "most revered German language author within the box of supernatural fiction".

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