“Golem” is Meyrink’s first novel, which had incredible success and brought the author world fame. The work in which images first appeared and reflected themes that subsequently accompanied Meyrink throughout his life - the image of moonlight and the mysterious “wall at the last lantern” , themes of sleep, vision and duality. The main character sees an amazing dream in which he lives the whole life of his double - the antique dealer Athanasius Pernat. Or maybe Pernat himself is nothing more than the human embodiment of a character from one of the strangest and most mysterious legends - the clay Golem? And is it important if, in essence, our whole life is nothing more than a dream lasting decades, and true life begins only there, beyond the moonlight, where people and things are not what they seem...