G The Green Face by Gustav Meyrink

G The Green Face by Gustav Meyrink

Of the volumes available to the English public, The Green Face, first published in 1916, is the most enjoyable. In an Amsterdam that very much resembles the Prague of The Golem, a stranger, Hauberisser, enters by chance a magician's shop. The name on the shop, he believes, is Chidher Green; inside, among several strange customers, he hears an old man, who says his name is Green, explain that, like the Wandering Jew, he has been on earth 'ever since the moon has been circling the heaven.' When Hauberisser catches sight of the old man's face, it makes him sick with horror. The face haunts him. The rest of the novel chronicles Hauberisser's quest for the elusive and horrible old man. Alberto Manguel in The Observer

Meyrink, Gustav: - Gustav Meyrink (I868-1932) found worldwide critical and commercial acclaim with his first novel The Golem (I9I5), which prior to the Dedalus Meyrink programme has been the only work available in English. It established his reputation as the master of the occult and the grotesque.(He was the German translator of Dickens). His reputation declined in his last years but now he is considered as one of the most important German language novelists of the 20th century. Dedalus has made all his major works available in English translation. In 2008 Dedalus Mike Mitchell's biography of Meyrink, Vivo.

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ISBN 13	9781910213896
ISBN 10	1910213896
Title	G The Green Face
Author	Gustav Meyrink
Series	Dedalus European Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dedalus Ltd
Year published	2018-11-09
Number of pages	224
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