![]() It is his depiction of Prague, expressionistic and foreboding, which dominates the novel. Meyrink’s sympathy for the persecution of the Jews, his dabblings in the occult, his suicide attempt and his spell in prison are all brought into play. The creature is also the doppelgänger of the hero of the novel, Athanasius Pernath, haunted by a past he would rather forget, and clinging to the memories of a mysterious woman whom he thinks he has lost. ![]() Set in the Jewish ghettos in the city of Prague, Meyrink weaves a dark, noir-ish tale of the occult, of a Kabbalistic supernatural force, the Golem, who dwells in a room without doors or windows. It’s pretty hard to categorise the novel: it’s a horror story and a romance, a murder mystery and a stream of consciousness. What makes it so strange is that Meyrink (1868-1932) based many of the occurences in the book on his own experience. The Golem is a very strange novel, written by a very strange man. ![]()
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