Vladimir Zimakov is an illustrator, book artist, designer, and printmaker who lives in the Los Angeles area. Many of his pieces are meant to illustrate books, but they really contain their own stories. His work oozes with mood and emotion. These two linoleum cut illustrations (“The Card Play” and “Danse Macabre”) are for a classic novel titled Walpurgisnacht, by Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932).
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This early 20′th century novel uses the city of Prague as the setting for a clash between German officialdom immured in the ancient castle, and a Czech revolution seething in the city below. History, myth, romance and political reality merge in this truly apocalyptic epic. Gustav Meyrink is an Austrian writer who is mostly known to the english-speaking world for his 1915 classic “The Golem”.
I was happy to find out about this, because Gustav Meyrink is one of my favorite writers. It’s surprising, why Meyrink’s novels and short stories are so hard to find in English, since his books are definitely among the best ones in the occult/mystical/gothic genre. Unfortunately, you cannot find the full works’ collection in english, only in german, russian or czech, but, fortunately, i know russian so i am one of the lucky ones who read everything from Meyrink .
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