The Golem
Gustav Meyrink$11.89
$13.99
Mike Mitchell has revised his translation and a new introduction has been added.
'A superbly atmospheric story set in the old Prague ghetto featuring the Golem, a kind of rabbinical Frankenstein's monster, which manifests every 33 years in a room without a door. Stranger still, it seems to have the same face as the narrator. Made into a film in 1920, this extraordinary book combines the uncanny psychology of doppelganger stories with expressionism and more than a little melodrama... Meyrink's old Prague -- like Dickens's London -- is one of the great creation of city writing, an eerie, claustrophobic and fantastical underworld where anything can happen.' Phil Baker in The Sunday Times
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 11/03/2017
ISBN: 9781910213674
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 1.00d
'A superbly atmospheric story set in the old Prague ghetto featuring the Golem, a kind of rabbinical Frankenstein's monster, which manifests every 33 years in a room without a door. Stranger still, it seems to have the same face as the narrator. Made into a film in 1920, this extraordinary book combines the uncanny psychology of doppelganger stories with expressionism and more than a little melodrama... Meyrink's old Prague -- like Dickens's London -- is one of the great creation of city writing, an eerie, claustrophobic and fantastical underworld where anything can happen.' Phil Baker in The Sunday Times
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 11/03/2017
ISBN: 9781910213674
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 1.00d