Mike Mitchell

Dedalus Meyrink Reader Mike Mitchell

Brief Description: 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 Fledermuse 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 Meyrinks 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. Review Quotes: " Meyrink's old Prague - like Dickens's London - is one of the great creations of city writing, an eerie, claustrophobic and fantastical underworld where anything can happen." -- Phil Baker in The Sunday TimesMarc Notes: Translated from the German.; Based on publisher-provided data. Publisher Marketing: Gustav Meyrink is now considered to be one of the most important German language novelists of the 20th century. This collection of stories illustrates Meyrink's fondness for the bizarre and the grotesque which reflects his personal interest in occult works.

Contributor Bio:  Mitchell, Mike Mike Mitchell was born and brought up in the north-east of Scotland and has spent a lifetime in transport management, first with British Rail and later with FirstGroup plc, where he was Chief Operating Officer. He was Managing Director of First Aberdeen, the successor of Aberdeen Corporation Transport in the mid 1990s. He has written several books and articles on the history of tramways and transport in north east Scotland. He now lives in West Yorkshire.