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Gustav Meyrink (19 January 1868 – 4 December 1932) 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".
Mar 21, 2018 · Gustav Meyrink died in 1932, six months after his own son had killed himself at the age of 24… the same age that Meyrink was when he claimed to have been about to end his own life. It’s a ...
The Golem (original German title: Der Golem) is a novel written by Gustav Meyrink between 1907 and 1914. First published in serial form from December 1913 to August 1914 [1] in the periodical Die Weißen Blätter , The Golem was published in book form in 1915 by Kurt Wolff , Leipzig.
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.
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First published in serial form as Der Golem in the periodical Die weissen Blätter in 1913–14, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters.
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Gustav Meyrink has 266 books on Goodreads with 38311 ratings. Gustav Meyrink’s most popular book is The Golem.
Sep 25, 2012 · Occult son of Prague. Meyrink, born Gustav Meyer, the illegitimate son of itinerant German actress Marie Meyer and Baron Freidrich Karl Gottlieb Varnbüler, is typically cited as an Austrian author, much like his younger Central European contemporary Franz Kafka is categorized as Czech.
