(I say this because, yesterday in class, the teacher, M. But that hasn’t happened.The end was a little too vague even for my imagination. While reading the story, I thought I was understanding it all, and I hoped that, once I read the last word, all of what I understood would be confirmed and everything would fall into place. I would not be able to tell this story to my grandchildren (oh, stop, I don’t have any, I am not that old, we are talking future/desire here) because I don’t really know what happened. I swear, upon reading the last word of the book, this was what I said out loud (there was noone else in the room): Posted by Lale on, 11:27:25, in reply to “The Golem” Athanasius Pernath IS the Golem, coming back every 33 years, but then how come the man that dreamed the whole story (another Pernath?) wakes up with Pernath’s hat, finds old acquaintances at “Loisitschek”, goes the Alchemists’ quarter, finds the house and inside there’s Pernath with Miriam. The style: perfectly adequate to the story.
The characters: some of them fascinating, starting with Athanasius Pernath himself, but also the wickedest villain Aaron Wassertrum, as well as Hillel and his daughter Miriam. The city will definitely be much different than what I imagined from readiing the book, but anyway I have to go there and wander around very drunk (OK, just wander around). It is most unfortunately that the Ghetto is no longer there, thanks to Mr. The setting: insuperable, the Jewish ghetto of Prague Oh my God I NEED to go to Prague. The plot: wow, dark, magical, tortured, like a dream I will try to summarize my initial thoughts on it: It’s a book I will read again some time, because I feel that the first reading is not enough to understand and appreciate many things. But in this case I will really need Help to get to understand Tee Golem. When we have read other books, your comments have been illustrative of a certain point, funny, contrary to my opinions and/or, all in all, have enriched the experience of reading. I couldn’t really tell if it is a masterpiece of literature or a piece of pulp fiction, and besides I’m note very interested in that search at this precise moment. Biswas) or a complex and tragic mosaic (tWotEotW). First I must say I really liked it, but not like the way I have enjoyed a good tale (The Razor’s Edge), a realistic straightforward story (Mr. Of all the books we have read so far (the ones I have read, at least), this has been the most difficult to categorize or to comment about.
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