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Der Golem: dtv- Klassiker

Autor Gustav Meyrink
de Limba Germană Paperback – 2012
The novel centers on the life of Athanasius Pernath, a jeweler and art restorer who lives in the ghetto of Prague. But his story is experienced by an anonymous narrator, who, during a visionary dream, assumes Pernath's identity thirty years before. This dream was perhaps induced because he inadvertently swapped his hat with the real (old) Pernath's. While the novel is generally focused on Pernath's own musings and adventures, it also chronicles the lives, the characters, and the interactions of his friends and neighbors. The Golem, though rarely seen, is central to the novel as a representative of the ghetto's own spirit and consciousness, brought to life by the suffering and misery that its inhabitants have endured over the centuries. The story itself has a disjointed and often elliptical feel, as it was originally published in serial form and is intended to convey the mystical associations and interests which the author himself was exploring at the time. The reality of the narrator's experiences are often called into question, as some of them may simply be dreams or hallucinations and others may be metaphysical or transcendent events which are taking place outside the "real" world. Similarly, it is revealed over the course of the book that Pernath apparently suffered from a mental breakdown on at least one occasion, but has no memory of any such event; he is also unable to remember his childhood and most of his youth, a fact that may or may not be attributable to his previous breakdown. His mental stability is constantly called into question by his friends and neighbors, and the reader is left to wonder what if anything that has taken place in the narrative actually happened.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783423140744
ISBN-10: 3423140747
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 190 x 120 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: dtv Verlagsgesellschaft
Seria dtv- Klassiker


Notă biografică

Gustav Meyrink (eigtl. Meyer) wurde am 19. Januar 1868 in Wien geboren. Nach der Tätigkeit als Bankier in Prag 1889-1902 lebte er ab 1905 als freier Schriftsteller in München. Meyrink gilt mit seinen bekannten Romanen >Der Golem<, >Das grüne Gesicht< und >Der weiße Dominikaner< als Klassiker der phantastischen Literatur. In sein Werk gingen mystische und kabbalistische Elemente ein, er selbst konvertierte 1927 zum Mahanja-Buddhismus. Er starb 1932 in Starnberg.