“Despairing plot about the reality of madness and life, leavened with strong doses of bittersweet irony. The idiosyncratic investigation and its laconic detective haven’t aged one iota.”—GuardianA child-murderer escapes from a Swiss insane asylum.
First published in serial form as Der Golem in the periodical Die weissen Blätter in 1913–14, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters. The red-headed prostitu
A stranger enters a magician's shop. Inside, among several strange customers, he sees an old man, who makes him sick with horror. The rest of the novel chronicles his quest for the elusive and horrible old man.
In den weltabgewandten alten Aristokraten am Hradschin über Prag erwachen die Dämonen der Vergangenheit, und die eigene mißbrauchte, verdorbene Jugend schreckt die Greise. In den entarteten Enkeln aber erstehen die Ahnen, geben ihnen ungeheure Kräfte
This gaudy, wild, and raw tale of a war-torn 17th Century Europe depicts Simplicissimus as the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor. We follow him from an orphaned childhood to the casual atrocities of occupying troops, through his own soldiering
