Il golem

“Rabbi Löw, well versed in all of the arts and sciences, especially in the Kabbalah, had fashioned for himself one such servant out of clay, placed in his mouth the magic formula, and thereby brought him to life”. Such is the legend. But Golem of Gustav Meyrink is a creature that comes in dreams. It Leggi tutto

Question: I am thinking of an author of novels and short stories, a speaker and writer of German, who lived in a predominately Czech-speaking area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the early years of the 20th Century. His works are often set in the city of Prague, a setting he fills with menace and

I wouldn’t want to be a Golem, and I wouldn’t want to see one either. Doing so seems to lead to a high degree of delusion. Well, an unreliable narration at the very least. I feel like everything the narrator says and does is questionable, and everything he says is doubtful. It’s impossible to say ho Leggi tutto

Hello. My name is Greg and this is my review for: I should first warn anyone reading this review that I suck at reading and you'd probably be better off reading reviews written by people who don't suck at reading. I only discovered my reading suckness last week, so I shamefully apologize for anyone w Leggi tutto

There are plenty of reviews here already for this oneiric/nightmarish German masterpiece, but after my recent reread, I thought I’d comment on the two different English translations, as there’s not much out there on the topic in internetland (at least that I’ve found). Some potential reader may find Leggi tutto

Σε ένα απόλυτα ατμοσφαιρικό, ερεβώδες και σαγηνευτικό μυθιστόρημα, σε τριακόσιες και πλέον σελίδες μυστηριώδους μπαρόκ ρομαντισμού (πόσο, αλήθεια, συμβάλλουν στην καταμάγευση του αναγνώστη οι σκοτεινές λιθογραφίες του Hugo Steiner - Prag που κοσμούν την έκδοση!), σε μια ονειρική περιδίνηση στα κακοφ Leggi tutto

The Golem is a high-brow literary thriller. Very readable, even re-readable. Here's what the great Jorge Luis Borges wrote about it in 1936: "...An extraordinarily visual book that enchantingly combines mythology, eroticism, tourism, the 'local color' of Prague, prophetic dreams, dreams of past or f Leggi tutto

Η αρχή της ιστορίας λένε πως χάνεται κάπου στον 17ο αιώνα. Κάποιος ραβίνος με τις αποκρυφιστικές υποδείξεις και τα κείμενα της καμπάλα δημιούργησε έναν τεχνητό άνθρωπο, τον επονομαζόμενο Γκόλεμ. Ο Γκόλεμ τοποθετείται στο χώρο κάπου ανάμεσα στον μύθο και την παράδοση της εβραϊκής πίστης, με τόσες δια Leggi tutto