Book description
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.
