5/28/2023 0 Comments The golem by gustav meyrink![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps the strangest thing about the book, published in installments in 1913 and 14 and published as a whole in 1915, was that this odd esoteric horror story was also tremendously popular in its day. And yet that strangeness feels almost like a side-effect, a byproduct of its insistence on its themes, on its vision, on its focus on the reality of Prague and on whatever it is that lies beyond that reality. ![]() Dreamlike, elliptical, informed by theosophical and occult symbols, it wrong-foots you nothing in it develops the way you’d expect, not in terms of character or plot or imagery. The first thing I feel I have to say about Gustav Meyrink’s novel, The Golem, is that it’s intensely, thrillingly strange. ![]()
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