by Gustav Meyrink · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422661900
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«El Golem» is the fantasy novel by Gustav Meyrink, published in hardback by Círculo de Lectores in 1997 (283 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in the Jewish ghetto of Prague and is woven around the legend of the Golem, a clay creature endowed with life. The novel explores identity, alienation and the unconscious through the question of whether the Golem is a ghost, a monster or the reader's own hidden double.
Work originally published as Der Golem in 1915. This 1997 edition includes illustrations by Willi Glasauer, translation by Celia and Alfonso Ungría and cloth binding with dust jacket.
For readers of gothic, fantasy and horror fiction, and for those interested in Central European literature of the early twentieth century.
Gustav Meyrink was the pseudonym of Gustav Meyer, an Austrian author, novelist, dramatist, translator, and banker, most famous for his novel The Golem. He has been described as the "most respected German language writer in the field of supernatural fiction".
