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 The
Golem
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- by Gustav Meyrink
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- Translated, and with an Introduction by
Mike Mitchell
- With twenty-five illustrations by
Hugo-Steiner-Prag
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- The
Golem is Gustav Meyrink’s masterly 1915
retelling of the legend of the blasphemous creation of an
artificial man by Rabbi Loew in the Prague ghetto of the
sixteenth century. But Meyrink’s novel is much more than
a variation on the Frankenstein or sorcerer’s apprentice
theme. It is also an exploration of personal identity and
the horror inherent in the search for self-knowledge. In
this brooding, atmospheric story, the monster terrorising
the streets of Prague is inextricably bound up with the
psyche of the people who live there.
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- This
Tartarus edition includes a new Introduction by the
translator, Mike
Mitchell, and, from the first edition, eight
lithographs by Hugo
Steiner-Prag, augmented by an additional seventeen
from the artist’s later portfolio ‘The Golem: Prague
Fantasies’
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- Cover
illustration by Joachim
Seinfeld
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- The
Golem is a sewn hardback of 253+xvi pages.
Limited to 300 copies.
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- Price
£30/$60 inc. p&p.
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- ISBN
1872621856.
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- "Reviews:
- A
gorgeous new translation . . . a frighteningly and
frankly devilishly skilful description of the Prague
ghetto and the creation by Rabbi Loew of an artificial
man. . . published by the Tartarus Press and is
absolutely beautiful." - Ian McMillan,
The Verb, BBC Radio 3
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- "The
Golem has rarely looked (or read) so well."
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William Simmons, Hellnotes
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- "Excellent English translation by Mike
Mitchell . . . If you are an enthusiast of dark fiction
and you missed this classical novel so far it's high time
to read it: you'll find it weird, engrossing, subtly and
deliciously distrurbing . . . spellbinding black and
white lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Prag." -
Mario Guslandi - www.laurhird.com
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- "If you are set on installing a
Golem permanently in your home, there can be no question
that Tartarus offers the finest English speaking model."
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Douglas Campbell, All Hallows
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- Hugo Steiner-Prag
was was a famous graphic artist, book
illustrator and stage designer during the first half of
the 20th century. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1880
as Hugo Steiner, he added the "Prag" to his name later.
From 1907 onwards he taught at the Academy for Graphic
Arts and Book Design in Leipzig, where he became
Professor in 1910. He worked for many publishers and was
the Art Director of the Propyläen Publishing Company
and organizer of the IBA (International Book Artists)
Exhibition in 1927. He also organized the exhibition for
the centenary of Goethe's death: "Goethe in the Book Art
of the World" in 1932. As a Jew, Hugo Steiner-Prag was
dismissed from his post when the Nazis came to power in
1933. He returned home to Czechoslovakia, but when the
Germans invaded his country he fled to the USA. He never
returned to Europe, dying in New York in 1945.
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- Joachim
Seinfeld was born in Paris in 1962 and is a
graduate the Academy of Art in Florence. He currently
lives in Berlin, and has had exhibitions in Germany, the
Netherlands, Denmark, Italy and Poland. In 1994 was
received the Heinrich-Heine-Award of the City of
Augsburg.
Page updated
23rd March 2008
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