![]() ![]() ![]() Meyrink's neurotic, metaphysical style can be difficult to fathom at times but Mike Mitchell's pacy, genuinely creepy new translation is long overdue. It's extraordinary to consider that Meyrink was a contemporary of Kafka – though the novel contains a trial, a prison and a castle, Meyrink's Prague is the antithesis of modernism: a superstitious, archaic world of alchemists, mystics and "mysterious creatures that drift through life with no will of their own, animated by an invisible magnetic current like a bridal bouquet floating in the filthy water of the gutter". First published in serial form from December 1913 to August 1914 1 in the periodical Die Weien Bltter, The Golem was published in book form in 1915 by Kurt Wolff, Leipzig. ![]() His most famous work, The Golem, reads like the anguished outpouring of a man who believes himself to have been terribly wronged, based on the horrific myth of a monster that springs to life and terrorises the ghetto every 33 years. The Golem (original German title: Der Golem) is a novel written by Gustav Meyrink between 19. G ustav Meyrink's macabre, mesmeric fiction is eclipsed only by the weirdness of his own life as a Prague bank manager at the beginning of the 20th century, who discovered Kabbalah and cannabis and was imprisoned for taking investment advice from the spirit world. ![]()
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