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The Golem (European Classics) (Paperback)

by Gustav Meyrink (Author), Mike Mitchell (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 262 pages
  • Publisher: Dedalus Ltd; New edition edition (3 Mar 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1873982917
  • ISBN-13: 978-1873982914
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.4 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 185,620 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best works of fiction ever written!, 23 Nov 2001
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars A mind trip of the highest order, 18 Jul 2009
By R. Khamar "footnote" (Dubai) - See all my reviews
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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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars I didn't understand this book at all, 26 Jun 2002
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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. I think the clue as to what is happening is the word "expressionist" in the introduction. I'd be interested to see how it was turned into a film.
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