I had been reading about the life of the Buddha before I went to bed, and one passage kept on running through my mind in a thousand variations, going back to the beginning again and again:Ī crow flew to a stone which looked like a lump of fat, thinking perhaps it had found something good to eat. I am not asleep, nor am I awake, and in my reverie things I have seen mingle with things I have read or heard, like rivers of different colour or clarity meeting. Whenever the disc of the full moon begins to shrink and its right-hand side starts to wither-like a face approaching old age, in which one cheek becomes hollow and wrinkled first-that is the time when at night I am seized by a dark and agonising restlessness. The moonlight is shining on the foot of my bed, lying there like a large, bright, flat stone. His mental stability is constantly called into question by his friends and neighbors, and the reader is left to wonder what if anything that has taken place in the narrative actually happened. Similarly, it is revealed over the course of the book that Pernath apparently suffered from a mental breakdown on at least one occasion, but has no memory of any such event he is also unable to remember his childhood and most of his youth, a fact that may or may not be attributable to his previous breakdown. The reality of the narrator's experiences is often called into question, as some of them may simply be dreams or hallucinations, and others may be metaphysical or transcendent events that are taking place outside the 'real' world. The story itself has a disjointed and often elliptical feel, as it was originally published in serial form and is intended to convey the mystical associations and interests that the author himself was exploring at the time. The Golem, though rarely seen, is central to the novel as a representative of the ghetto's own spirit and consciousness, brought to life by the suffering and misery that its inhabitants have endured over the centuries. While the novel is generally focused on Pernath's own musings and adventures, it also chronicles the lives, the characters, and the interactions of his friends and neighbors. This dream was perhaps induced because he inadvertently swapped his hat with the real (old) Pernath's.

But his story is experienced by an anonymous narrator, who, during a visionary dream, assumes Pernath's identity thirty years before. The novel centers on the life of Athanasius Pernath, a jeweler and art restorer who lives in the ghetto of Prague. It was first translated into English in 1928. It became his most popular and successful literary work, and is generally described as the most 'accessible' of his full-length novels. First published in serial form from December 1913 to August 1914 in the periodical Die Weißen Blätter, The Golem was published in book form in 1915 by Kurt Wolff, Leipzig. The Golem (original German title: Der Golem) is a novel written by Gustav Meyrink between 19.

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