The Dedalus Meyrink Reader

Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell

• Publisher: Dedalus
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781903517857
• eBook ISBN: 9781909232136
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

An anthology of Meyrink' s work, novels, short stories & essays. Gustav Meyrink is one of the most important and interesting authors of early 20th-century German Literature. To establish his reputation in the English-speaking world Dedalus has translated his five novels plus a collection of his short stories and published the first ever English-language biography of Meyrink. Now is the time to produce an overview of Meyrink in a single volume. The Dedalus Meyrink Reader has excerpts from all the translated books and a whole section of hitherto untranslated material, including the stories from the collection Fledermäuse and autobiographical articles. This volume is perfect companion for both the Meyrink scholar and the first-time Meyrink reader, containing as it does the whole gamut of Meyrink's writing from his love of the bizarre, the grotesque and the macabre to the spine-chilling occult tales and his quest to know what is on the Other Side of the Mirror. Novelist, satirist, translator of Charles Dickens, dandy, man-about-time, fencer, rower, banker and mystic seer, there are many, sometimes contradictory aspects to Gustav Meyrink, who must also be the only novelist to have challenged a whole army regiment to a duel. He has left behind a unique body of work, which can be sampled and enjoyed in The Dedalus Meyrink Reader.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Dedication
• Contents
• The Editor
• Foreword
• Part 1 (Previously untranslated works)
• Cricket Magic
• How Dr Job Paupersum gave his Daughter Red Roses
• Amadeus Knödlseder, the Incorrigible Bearded Vulture
• J. H. Obereit’s Visit to the Time-Leeches
• Cardinal Napellus
• The Four Moon Brethren a Document
• My Torments and Delights in the World Beyond Communicated by Spiritualist Table-Rapping
• Herr Kuno Hinrichsen, Businessman, and the Penitent, Lala Lajpat-Rai
• The Clockmaker
• The City with the Secret Heartbeat
• The Pilot
• The Transformation of the Blood
• The Alchemist’s House — Chapter 3 ‘Ismene’
• Part 2 (Extracts from previously translated works)
• The Golem
• The Green Face
• Walpurgisnacht
• The White Dominican
• The Angel of the West Window
• Petroleum, Petroleum
• Blamol
• Dr. Cinderella’s Plants
• The Ring of Saturn
• Vivo: The Life of Gustav Meyrink
• Prison
• Editor’s Notes:
• Copyright