The style: perfectly adequate to the story.

The characters: some of them fascinating, starting with Athanasius Pernath himself, but also the wickedest villain Aaron Wassertrum, as well as Hillel and his daughter Miriam. The city will definitely be much different than what I imagined from readiing the book, but anyway I have to go there and wander around very drunk (OK, just wander around). It is most unfortunately that the Ghetto is no longer there, thanks to Mr. The setting: insuperable, the Jewish ghetto of Prague Oh my God I NEED to go to Prague. The plot: wow, dark, magical, tortured, like a dream I will try to summarize my initial thoughts on it: It’s a book I will read again some time, because I feel that the first reading is not enough to understand and appreciate many things. But in this case I will really need Help to get to understand Tee Golem. When we have read other books, your comments have been illustrative of a certain point, funny, contrary to my opinions and/or, all in all, have enriched the experience of reading. I couldn’t really tell if it is a masterpiece of literature or a piece of pulp fiction, and besides I’m note very interested in that search at this precise moment. Biswas) or a complex and tragic mosaic (tWotEotW). First I must say I really liked it, but not like the way I have enjoyed a good tale (The Razor’s Edge), a realistic straightforward story (Mr. He worked as a translator and translated in German 15 volumes by Charles Dickens while working on his own novels.Īmong his most famous works are Der Golem (1914) and Walpurgisnacht (1917).Of all the books we have read so far (the ones I have read, at least), this has been the most difficult to categorize or to comment about. Meyrinck founded his own bank but was accused of fraud for which he spent 2 months in prison. His son committed suicide at the same age with success. He unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide at the age of 24. The city of Prague is present in most of his work along with various religious, occult and fantastic themes.

The illegitimate child of a baron and an actress, Meyrinck spent his childhood in Germany, then moving to today's Czech Republic where he lived for 20 years. Among his most famous works are Der Golem (1914) and Walpurgisnacht (1917). He worked as a translator and translated in German 15 volumes by Charles Dickens while working on his own novels. Curious facts: He unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide at the age of 24.

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