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Amazon.co.uk: The Green Face: Books: Gustav Meyrink,Franz Rottensteiner,Michael Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Gustav Meyrink's "The Green Face" is an exhilarating vision of apocalypse. |
 | | Meyrink reworks and amplifies the legend of the Wandering Jew (a being fated to walk the earth from the days of Christ till the end of time), portraying his Chidher Green as a harbinger of cataclysmic change both for the novel's protagonist, Fortunatus Hauberrisser, and for Amsterdam in general. |
 | | Also, the route Hauberrisser must take through the story is Meyrink's familiar path of enlightenment-a moment of sudden spiritual awareness followed by a period of isolation, which at last leads to promises of a mystical marriage. |
| www.amazon.co.uk /Green-Face-Gustav-Meyrink/dp/0929497376 (791 words) |