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Vivo: The Life of Gustav Meyrink

Mike Mitchell

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Description:The illegitimate son of an aristocratic politician and an actress, Meyrink set up as a banker in Prague. He achieved notoriety as a dandy while at the same time being a successful sportsman, winning prizes at rowing regattas. About to commit suicide, he chanced on a pamphlet about life and death, put his revolver away and started a lifelong interest in the occult. He unmasked false mediums and experimented with alchemy, drugs and clairvoyancy until an 'affair of honour' led him to challenge the whole of the Prague officer corps, setting machinations in motion which resulted in his being wrongly imprisoned. His bank collapsed and he became a writer, the author of "The Golem."Stories collected round him, so that it is often difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. "Vivo: The Life of Gustav Meyrink" presents the reader with both the remarkable life and the fantastic legend that was Meyrink, allowing him and those who knew him to speak in their own words wherever possible.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Vivo: The Life of Gustav Meyrink. To get started finding Vivo: The Life of Gustav Meyrink, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 225

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Dedalus

Release: 2008

ISBN: 1903517699

Description: The illegitimate son of an aristocratic politician and an actress, Meyrink set up as a banker in Prague. He achieved notoriety as a dandy while at the same time being a successful sportsman, winning prizes at rowing regattas. About to commit suicide, he chanced on a pamphlet about life and death, put his revolver away and started a lifelong interest in the occult. He unmasked false mediums and experimented with alchemy, drugs and clairvoyancy until an 'affair of honour' led him to challenge the whole of the Prague officer corps, setting machinations in motion which resulted in his being wrongly imprisoned. His bank collapsed and he became a writer, the author of "The Golem."Stories collected round him, so that it is often difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. "Vivo: The Life of Gustav Meyrink" presents the reader with both the remarkable life and the fantastic legend that was Meyrink, allowing him and those who knew him to speak in their own words wherever possible.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Vivo: The Life of Gustav Meyrink. To get started finding Vivo: The Life of Gustav Meyrink, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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