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What Golem for the 21st century?

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2019

Abstract

After The weeping woman on the streets of Prague (1994) by Sylvie Germain, The Golem by Elie Wiesel (2001), Golems (2004) by Alain Delbe, The Kabbalist of Prague (2010) by Marek Halter and The Olive Trees of Négus (2011) by Laurent Gaudé, Pierre Assouline rewrote the old Jewish legend in his own version of Golem (2016). Based on a meditation between Kabbalah and neuroscience, his text raises a number of disturbing questions concerning the emerging figures of the human.