“Golem” is Meyrink’s first novel, the one that brought him enormous success and worldwide fame. In this work, the images of moonlight, the mysterious “wall by the last lamppost,” and the themes of dreams, visions, and doubles appear for the first time. The main character has a striking dream in which he lives the life of his double—the antique dealer Athanasius Pernat. Perhaps Pernat himself is the human embodiment of one of the mysterious legends—the clay Golem. But maybe none of this matters, because our life is, in essence, only a dream; and true life begins beyond the moonlight, where people and things are not what they seem…