Golem— pervyy roman Mayrinka, imevshiy neveroyatnyy uspekh i prinesshiy avtoru mirovuyu slavu. Proizvedeniye, v kotorom vpervyye poyavilis' obrazy, i nashli otrazheniye temy, vposledstvii soprovozhdavshiye Mayrinka vsyu zhizn', — obraz lunnogo sveta i tainstvennoy «steny u poslednego fonarya», temy sna, videniya i dvoynichestva. Glavnyy geroy vidit udivitel'nyy son, v kotorom prozhivayet tseluyu zhizn' svoyego dvoynika — antikvara Atanasiusa Pernata. A mozhet sam Pernat — ne boleye chem chelovecheskoye voploshcheniye personazha odnoy iz samykh strannykh i zagadochnykh legend — glinyanogo Golema? Da i vazhno li eto, yesli, v sushchnosti, vsya nasha zhizn' — ne boleye chem son, dlinoy v desyatiletiya, a istinnaya zhizn' nachinayetsya lish' tam, za gran'yu lunnogo sveta, gde lyudi i veshchi — ne to, chem kazhutsya…
