The Golem (Dedalus European Classics)
by Gustav Meyrink
from Dedalus,
classic novel of Kaballah & legend, tr M Mitchell
The White Dominican (Dedalus European Classics)
by Gustav Meyrink
from Dedalus Press
El Golem (Fbula)
Esta es una novela inspirada en las tradiciones judaicas de la Edad Media. Las callejuelas del barrio judio de la capital de la antigua region checa son el espacio donde, por medio de la magia y los secretos divinos, un rabino da vida a un ser inteligente creado a partir del barro y las palabras, que crece desmesuradamente.
The Opal (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series)
by Gustav Meyrink
from Ariadne Press (CA)
El Dominico Blanco
The Green Face
Meyrink's second, and most mystical, novel from 1916: this is the first time this Dedalus edition has been available in North America. Published in Germany to critical and commercial acclaim, it is set in Amsterdam, used as a symbol of European decadence: the city is ultimately destroyed. The Green Face has classic Meyrink features: * a mystical wedding * a galaxy of grotesque characters * the haunting atmosphere of the ghetto In an Amsterdam that very much resembles the Prague of The Golem, a stranger, Hauberisser, enters by chance a magician's shop. The name on the shop, he believes, is Chidher Green; inside, among several strange customers, he hears an old man, who says his name is Green, explain that, like the Wandering Jew, he has been on earth ""ever since the moon has been circling the heaven."" When Hauberisser catches sight of the old man's face, it makes him sick with horror, haunting him. The rest of the novel chronicles Hauberisser's quest for the elusive and horrible old man.
Walpurgisnacht (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series)
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