Golem, the [2017 Edition] |
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Author:
| MEYRINK, Gustav Mitchell, Mike |
Series title: | Dedalus European Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-910213-67-4 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2017 |
Publisher: | Dedalus Books Limited
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $11.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionMike 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