About the Author: Gustav Meyrink
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. The city of Prague is present in most of his work along with various religious, occult and fantastic themes. Meyrinck practiced yoga all his life.
Curious facts:
He unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide at the age of 24. His son committed suicide at the same age with success.
Meyrinck founded his own bank but was accused of fraud for which he spent 2 months in prison.
He worked as a translator and translated in German 15 volumes by Charles Dickens while working on his own novels.
Among his most famous works are Der Golem (1914) and Walpurgisnacht (1917).
Other books by Gustav Meyrink
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Gustav Meyrink, Alfonso UngrÃa, Marcia Schvartz, Fernado Bedoya
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Hardcover, by Libros del Zorro rojo
ISBN10: 8496509451 | ISBN13: 9788496509450
Page count: 241
El Golem es una de las novelas capitales de la literatura fantástica del siglo XX; con ella, el escritor vienés Gustav Meyrink llevó hasta sus más altas posibilidades narrativas el mito hebreo del coloso de barro que sólo pueden animar quienes han descifrado el nombre secreto de la divinidad.
La alucinatoria vida de Athanasius Pernath transcurre en el gueto judÃo de Praga durante la dominación del imperio austrohúngaro. Tras sucumbir al extraño influjo de un sombrero encontrado en una catedral, el protagonista intenta abrirse paso entre sórdidos crÃmenes y arcanas apariciones al tiempo que comienza a entrever el carácter mÃstico de la realidad y de su propio destino. Përsonajes misteriosos y antiguas leyendas medievales se entretegen en un trasfondo onÃrico y perturbador.
Las intensas ilustraciones de Marcia Schvartz y Fernando Bedoya recrean magistralmente los gatros terrores de esta pesadilla.
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