Personality and personal interests channel his sense of the world into a very unusual work. In the literature and in society, the Austrian writer is known as an author who does not fit into any particular category. In order to read Gustav Meyrink, special qualities of the spirit are necessary. Gustav Meyrink died six months after his successor on December 4, 1932, in Starnberg.

The young man committed suicide at the age of 24 - the age his father had wanted to end his life years ago. In a ski incident, the son of the author remains disabled. A house with the same name is also present in his novel Golem. His home is known as the Last Lantern House. From 1911 to the end of his days he lived in the small Bavarian town of Starnberg.

Subsequently, he was acquitted and released, but bitter leaving the city. Meyrink was arrested and spent two months in prison. In 1902, a fraud was brought against him. The writer has his own banking company in Prague. Myrinck himself translated a number of occult books, including the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Characteristic of his work are psychology and Expressionism. It is no coincidence that he is considered the most significant German-language author of supernatural prose. His books include a number of occult traditions. He began to study the occult, Kabbalah and Eastern mysticism. The writer accepts this as a sign of fate and decides to continue his life. At the age of 24, he decides to commit suicide, but at this very moment someone puts an occult brochure under his door. The city occupies a central place in his work - it is believed that Meyrink's Prague is one of the best-described cities in the literature. In 1883, the family settled in Prague, where Meyrink spent the next twenty years of his life.

He was raised by his mother, and because of her profession the two of them travel a lot. He is an illegitimate son of an actress and a minister of state. Gustav Meyrink is an Austrian writer, playwright and translator, born in Vienna in 1868. 'Golem' is Meyrink's first novel, and as the 1914 release came, the publication gained popularity and sold large sales, and the action was evolving in the Jewish ghetto of Prague, biting and reality intermingling with dreams and hallucinations, and readers must decide on their own which of the happening events are real.

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