by Gustav Meyrink · Tusquets, Barcelona 1997. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476727799
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«El Golem» is the gothic novel by Gustav Meyrink, published by Tusquets in 1997 in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in Prague, in the atmosphere of the Jewish ghetto, where the jeweller Athanasius Pernath, in the grip of amnesia, discovers that he shares a face with the Golem, a creature of rabbinic myth that embodies the suffering of the community and returns every thirty-three years. With a gothic and dreamlike atmosphere, the novel combines marginal and symbolic characters to address identity, persecution and collective memory.
Work originally published as Der Golem. This Spanish edition belongs to the Fábula collection from Tusquets and includes a translation by C. and A. Ungría.
For readers of horror and mystery classics, interested in Central European literature and Jewish folklore legends.
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".
