The Golem (Meyrink novel)

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The Golem

First Edition, Kurt Wolff, Leipzig 1915/16
Author	Gustav Meyrink
Original title	Der Golem
Language	German
Genre	Speculative fiction, horror fiction
Publisher	Kurt Wolff
Publication date	1915
Publication place	Germany

The Golem (original German title: Der Golem) is a novel written by Gustav Meyrink between 1907 and 1914.^[1] 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. The Golem was Meyrink's first novel. It sold over 200,000 copies in 1915.^[2] It became his most popular and successful literary work,^[2] and is generally described as the most "accessible" of his full-length novels. It was first translated into English in 1928.

The novel has an anonymous narrator, who has a visionary dream. It explores the theme of the unreliable narrator. The narrator is somehow able to chronicle the life of the jeweler Athanasius Pernath by assuming Pernath's identity.