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Gustav Meyrink has long attracted readers for his masterful novels, examining the supernatural, the macabre, the spiritual, and the occult. Nowhere are his skills in greater evidence than in The Golem, his most successful novel, which is also critically acknowledged to be his greatest work.
The legend of the Golem, associated with the sixteenth-century Rabbi Low of Prague, who is said to have created an artificial man of clay -- the Golem -- to protect the inhabitants of the ghetto, has been told many times, but by none more effectively than by Meyrink. Like his contemporary, Kafka, Meyrink excels at creating an atmosphere of fear and apprehension. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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' a superbly atmospheric story set in the old Prague ghetto featuring The Golem, a kind of rabbinical Frankenstein's monster, which manifests iitself 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 uncanny psychology of doppelganger stories with expressionism and more than a little melodrama... Meyrink's old Prague - like Dicken's London - is one of the great creations of City writing, an eerie, claustrophobic and fantastical underworld where anything can happen.' Phil Baker in The Sunday Times
' a superbly atmospheric story set in the old Prague ghetto featuring The Golem, a kind of rabbinical Frankenstein's monster, which manifests iitself 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 uncanny psychology of doppelganger stories with expressionism and more than a little melodrama... Meyrink's old Prague - like Dicken's London - is one of the great creations of City writing, an eerie, claustrophobic and fantastical underworld where anything can happen.' Phil Baker in The Sunday Times
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having sat unread on my shelf for years following an aborted attempt to read it, boredom and curiosity urged me to finally read this rather strange book. However, the first few pages weren't promising - but I persevered and subsequently this book as become one of my all time favourites.
Part exploration of the soul / detective story, this is a Gothic tale woven from mythology, mysticism, and seeped in old world Prague. On the face of it, the narrator thinks a 'Jewish Frankenstein' is haunting the Jewish Ghetto of Prague and it looks like him. It is garnished with fascinating characters, side stories and visual descriptions of Prague.
A book highly recommended for people with a love of the unusual and the metaphorical.
Part exploration of the soul / detective story, this is a Gothic tale woven from mythology, mysticism, and seeped in old world Prague. On the face of it, the narrator thinks a 'Jewish Frankenstein' is haunting the Jewish Ghetto of Prague and it looks like him. It is garnished with fascinating characters, side stories and visual descriptions of Prague.
A book highly recommended for people with a love of the unusual and the metaphorical.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
One of many stories built around the Golem legend. The sense of place and time created is superb, the mystical elements are absorbing and the plot twists and tension keep you reading. The plot follows a different arc from what you might expect if you have seen the old Golem movies from years ago and some people might find that aspect disappointing. It is not a horror story in the Stephen King mould, more akin to the perplexing worlds of Haruki Murakami, I think. Well worth reading.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an incredibly atmospheric book with a most powerful sense of place. It captures the strange thought patterns of dreams and is utterly captivating. Read it!
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I didn't understand this book at all
I found this book very hard going and difficult to follow. I only really began to understand what was happening at the end, which these days would have been seen as a cop-out. Read more
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