Missed the whole idea, so I thought that maybe I should write a post explaining What the infallible Wikipedia has to say of Meyrink and Golem. Meyrink is not one-sided in his evaluation of ghetto Jews. There are also two saintly Jews, Kabbalist Hillel and his daughter Miriam, so Vitality to prey on their victims, only Aaron Wassertrum, a junk dealer,īlackmailer, criminal and millionaire still masters the old Jewish tricks. It: Meyrink shows Jews as degenerated predators, who do not any more have the Of the ghetto is there in the beginning of the book and quite as I remembered The way as I think Theosophists of the beginning of the 20th century saw Jews,Ī degenerated race, just to check that they really thought so. I remembered that the book described the Jewish ghetto of Prague very much in
Later he become a Buddhist, but in The Golem you see mainly references Short time a Theosophist bought and read it. Meyrink was no doubt influenced by his beliefs in occultism, alchemy, Kabbalah and eastern mysticism, and the result is a dream-like narrative of disjointed horror, only partly rooted in this world.Ago I noticed Meyrink’s (Meyer’s) The Golem in a box of reduced price pocketīooks and as I knew that Meyrink was a member of the Golden Dawn and for a In Meyrink's retelling, the Golem is a being that reappears in Prague's Jewish ghetto every 33 years, causing strange and unknowable occurrences, and the feeling of being watched by unknown forces lurking in dark shadows. The legend of the Golem dates back to biblical times, and Meyrink is one in a long line of writers, including Jacob Grimm of the Brothers Grimm, to channel its myth. Lovecraft cited it as one of the "best examples" of Jewish weird fiction, exclaiming it was "the most magnificent weird thing I've come across in aeons!"
Jorge Louis Borges called it "a remarkable work of horror, half-way between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein," and H.P. An immediate success, Der Golem sold over 200,000 copies during its first year of publication. Near Fine with light soiling to boards, light foxing to front paste down and light toning to pages, else a rather sharp copy indeed.Īn immensely important and influential modernist fantasy novel, written by a contemporary of Franz Kafka, whose literary masterpiece The Metamorphosis was published at nearly the same time and even by the same publisher as Meyrink's Der Golem.
Bound in publisher's red paper-covered boards over white cloth spine with titles printed in black text in German. Signed by Gustav Meyrink on the front free endpaper. First edition, first impression title page dated 1916 and copyright page dated 1915 as called for.
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