![]() ![]() 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 Made into a film in 1920, this extraordinary book combines the uncanny psychology of doppelganger stories with expressionism and more than a little melodrama. Stranger still, it seems to have the same face as the narrator. ![]() "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. The Golem by Gustav Meyrink, translated by Mike Mitchell / ISBN 9781910213674 / 280-page paperback from Dedalus European Classics ![]()
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