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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 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
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The Golem, Gustav Meyrink
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- The Golem
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gustav Meyrink
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 280
- ISBN10
- 1910213675
- ISBN13
- 9781910213674
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Classics, Horror, Prague, Mysticism, Gothic Horror, Kabbalah, Old Prague, Golem, Rabbi Löw
- First published
- 1915
- Original title
- Der Golem
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- 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