![]() ![]() 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. A Sensatio- nalist Shlock Novel or an Esoteric Vision of the World ABSTRACT. ![]() Stranger still, it seems to have the same face as the narrator. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. Sten Wistrand, Gustav Meyrinks The Golem. '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. ![]() Mike Mitchell has revised his translation and a new introduction has been added. 'Gustav Meyrink uses this legend in a dream-like setting on the Other Side of the Mirror and he has invested it with a horror so palpable that it has remained in my memory all these years.' Jorge Luis Borge Dedalus European Classics General Editor: Mike Mitchell The Golem Gustav Meyrink The Golem translated by Mike Mitchell and with an introduction and. ![]() 'A remarkable work of horror, half- way between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein.'The Observer ![]()
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