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Title:The Golem
Author:Gustav Meyrink
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 264 pages
Published:June 28th 2000 by Dedalus (first published 1915)
Categories:Horror. Fiction. Classics. Fantasy. Gothic. European Literature. German Literature
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First published in serial form as Der Golem in the periodical Die weissen Blätter in 1913–14, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters. The red-headed prostitute Rosina; the junk-dealer Aaron Wassertrum; puppeteers; street musicians; and a deaf-mute silhouette artist. Lurking in its inhabitants’ subconscious is the Golem, a creature of rabbinical myth. Supposedly a manifestation of all the suffering of the ghetto, it comes to life every 33 years in a room without a door. When the jeweller Athanasius Pernath, suffering from broken dreams and amnesia, sees the Golem, he realises to his terror that the ghostly man of clay shares his own face... The Golem, though rarely seen, is central to the novel as a representative of the ghetto's own spirit and consciousness, brought to life by the suffering and misery that its inhabitants have endured over the centuries. Perhaps the most memorable figure in the story is the city of Prague itself, recognisable through its landmarks such as the Street of the Alchemists and the Castle.

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Original Title: Der Golem
ISBN: 1873982917 (ISBN13: 9781873982914)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Athanasius Pernath
Setting: Amsterdam(Netherlands) Prague (Praha)(Czech Republic)


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This review is more in the nature of a few comments on my first-time reading experience. I am frankly not qualified to discuss German language literature even in what Im told is an excellent translation. I know little about Gustav Meyrink, beyond a couple of biographical articles, and Ive never read anything by him before.That said, Ive just had a truly mind-bending excursion through the Jewish ghetto of pre-WW I Prague. The atmosphere is pure Gothic. The narrator is thoroughly unreliable,

I didn't really know what to expect before reading this and afterwards it is quite hard to talk about.Initially I think it was quite hard to get into, being introduced with new characters with each new chapter and the somewhat disjointed feel from chapter to chapter. But after a while one gets into the flow and embroiled in the story.Looking back, it doesn't really feel like a horror story as such, although it definitely fits into the category of a weird tale with it's strange occurrences,

Review of The Golem I'm a big fan of Meyrink's work, because I love novels that one can read many times and still find something new and inspiring to focus on. I found Golem to be so atmospheric that I felt as if I was there in the old Jewish Town, feeling the claustrophobic melancholy of the place, seeing the variety of people who lived there, hearing the old medieval houses whispering their ancient secrets, absorbing the mystery of the stones. I was born in Prague and grew up in the city, but

Rabbi Löw, well versed in all of the arts and sciences, especially in the Kabbalah, had fashioned for himself one such servant out of clay, placed in his mouth the magic formula, and thereby brought him to life. Such is the legend. But Golem of Gustav Meyrink is a creature that comes in dreams.It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible

I wouldnt want to be a Golem, and I wouldnt want to see one either. Doing so seems to lead to a high degree of delusion. Well, an unreliable narration at the very least. I feel like everything the narrator says and does is questionable, and everything he says is doubtful. Its impossible to say how much of this actually happened, and how much of it was in the narrators mind. Obscure density is all we are left with. I hoped they would change their shape as I looked at them, allowing me to assume

A very good and memorable Gothic tale, that is only loosely based on the original 16th-century Golem of Prague narrative, although this one's also set in Prague (at the present time of publication, 1915 or some 33 years earlier). If you're not put off by mysticismJewish and otherwiseI recommend you check it out. It definitely has literary value! I'd put it somewhere in the vicinity of Poe and Kafka, with a little Lovecraft in the mix. It's a quick read, and the ending is, although not entirely