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The Angel of the West Window (1927)

di Gustav Meyrink

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A complex and ambitious novel which centres on the life of the Elizabethan magus, John Dee, in England, Poland and Prague, as it intertwines past and present, dreams and visions, myth and reality in a world of the occult, culminating in the transmutation of physical reality into a higher spiritual existence.John Dee, through his 20th century descendant, is led by the Green Angel to the 'Other Side of the Mirror'. From the erotically alluring Assja Shotokalungin (in all her incarnations), the pliant Jane, the mischievous Queen Elizabeth 1 to the earless charlatan Kelley, the truly grotesque Bartlett Greene and the sinister Emperor Rudolph1, John Dee heads a cast which lingers in the mind long after the book has been put down.… (altro)
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El Ángel de la Ventana de Occidente

Es una novela que trata de la misteriosa alquimia
que anula el tiempo y el espacio cuando el espíritu
del hombre se inclina sobre sus propias capacidades.

Mediante el personaje real de John Dee, célebre
ocultista y sabio de la época isabelina, Meyrink nos
guía a través de un viaje alucinante donde se exploran
los infinitos paisajes de la consciencia entremezclados
con los del inconsciente.

Relatos cruzados, cambios de lo real a lo imaginario
e inversión de personajes son los ingredientes de esta
obra, en la que alienta poderosamente el espíritu del
romanticísmo fantástico.
  FundacionRosacruz | Jul 30, 2018 |
EL ANGEL DE LA VENTANA DE OCCIDENTE

El ángel de la ventana de occidente, última novela de Meyrink, narra la fantástica historia de un hombre que, tras hacerse cargo de los papeles de un primo difunto, comienza a tener pesadillas y visiones sobre su antepasado, el enigmático John Dee, célebre ocultista inglés que vivió entre 1527 y 1609. Recibe entonces la visita de dos extraños personajes, el misterioso Lipotin y la seductora Assja Chotokalungin, que le reclaman la legendaria punta de lanza de Hoël Dhat, de la que él nada sabe. La acción de la novela, que transcurre en Inglaterra, Polonia y Praga, oscila entre lo real y lo onírico, y viaja desde los albores del siglo XX al reinado de Isabel I. El relato pretende ilustrar la ley del karma, así como exponer los fundamentos de la verdadera alquimia: procurar al ser humano un vehículo inmortal para lograr la resurrección de la carne.

BREVE FRAGMENTO DE LA OBRA

Quítate la ropa de viaje .Obedecí alegremente. Como yesca, mis vestidos de camino caen ya quemados por el incendio de mi casa terrestre. Como yesca.

Vestidos blancos me envuelven.

Dime, amigo, ¿ qué era, qué es el Ángel de la ventana de Occidente? ¡Un eco y nada más! Era la suma de las preguntas, de la ciencia, y del poder mágico que permanecía
escondido en tí y que no suponías. Puesto que cada uno de vosotros ha contribuido a esta suma, cada uno ha considerado con estupor al Ángel como una revelación.
Hay muchos ángeles similares en el reino de la gestación y la descomposición. Más le valiera la humanidad que no viniera ningún ángel de esta especie.

Esta es la grandeza del hombre en cada nacimiento de hombre que da lugar, el no querer nada y poderlo todo ...
  FundacionRosacruz | Jan 27, 2018 |
There are some conspicuous similarities between Gustav Meyrink's Angel of the West Window and the Aegypt Cycle of John Crowley. Both of them embed the story of Elizabethan magus John Dee in a narrative about a 20th-century intellectual undergoing mysterious trials. The big differences in the way they do so are reflections of the fact that Meyrink was an occultist, and Crowley is not. In Crowley's books, the Dee story is related in a novel written by Fellowes Kraft, whose literary estate is an object of professional concern for the modern protagonist. In The Angel of the West Window, Dee's life is first detailed in Dee's own journals and papers, preserved as a family inheritance. Then later the story is completed with the 20th-century protagonist's visionary experiences of his ancestor's latter days.

Although it is a single volume (contrasted with the four of the Aegypt Cycle, which admittedly have a much wider focus), The Angel of the West Window is a substantial one, possibly exceeding the length of any two of Meyrink's other novels combined. Its mood and themes are probably closest to The White Dominican, which may actually be a better book, but The Angel has more to offer readers interested in occult history, by exploring the career of Dee.

Like Meyrink's The Green Face and The White Dominican, this story has supernatural elements partaking of a certain measure of gender essentialism from a masculine perspective, to which feminist critics may take offense. It is, however, firmly in the libidinal Rosicrucian tradition of literature, including works like Randolph's Ravalette, Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni, and Naglowska's Sacred Rite of Magical Love.

Mike Mitchell's English translation seems to be solid enough (judged without access to the German original) and reads smoothly, although his consistent misspelling of elixir as "elixier" is a little irritating. For a long book, it lacks all parsing beyond the level of a paragraph break. There are no chapter headings, and with the narrative's tendency to pass between recollection, reading, vision, dream, and empirical states with very little notice, any place the reader might pause has a tendency to feel very arbitrary.

Other reviewers have cautioned that the book may be opaque to those unversed in the occult, an estimation which I am not in a good position to judge. The first-person protagonist Baron Mueller, who is in some measure a cipher for the author, does not indulge in expository hand-holding regarding general theories or traditions of occultism. Certainly, the social and technical aspects of 17th-century alchemy are an important context which the book tends to take for granted. I felt as if the ending made some of the story's enigmas a little too clear, and the newspaper-clipping denouement has a bit of cliche about it. But there is still a deep sense of mystery maintained through the final revelations.
3 vota paradoxosalpha | Jan 26, 2016 |
Just too heavy on the mysticism for my taste ( )
  Georges_T._Dodds | Mar 31, 2013 |
L'Ange à la fenêtre d'Occident, l'ultime roman de Gustav Meyrink, est de ces livres qui, sitôt ouverts, n'en finissent plus de vous hanter. Rédigé peu avant la mort de l'auteur, il est à son œuvre ce que Faust est à celle de Goethe : une " somme ", summa scientia. L'histoire fascinante de John Dee, célèbre alchimiste du XVI° siècle, y est relatée à travers les fragments de son journal, que le baron Müller, un lointain descendant, a reçu en héritage. De l'Autriche du XX° siècle à l'Angleterre de la reine Élisabeth, en passant par la Prague du Rabbi Löw, droit venu du Golem, les repères peu à peu vacillent, et l'on voyage, de la table de travail de Müller au cachot où l'alchimiste, accusé de sorcellerie, est retenu prisonnier... Placé sous l'auspice du culte de la " putain du diable " Isaïs la Noire, figure de la tentatrice, ce roman est sans doute l'un des plus sensuels de Meyrink. Sombre et charnel, L'Ange à la fenêtre d'Occident, où les ressorts du fantastique meyrinkien sont exploités jusqu'au vertige, est un " livre extraordinaire, foisonnant de symboles, pullulant de mystères, rempli d'un désordre grandiose où la vision profonde confine souvent à la folie " (Marcel Béalu). ( )
  vdb | Aug 13, 2010 |
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A complex and ambitious novel which centres on the life of the Elizabethan magus, John Dee, in England, Poland and Prague, as it intertwines past and present, dreams and visions, myth and reality in a world of the occult, culminating in the transmutation of physical reality into a higher spiritual existence.John Dee, through his 20th century descendant, is led by the Green Angel to the 'Other Side of the Mirror'. From the erotically alluring Assja Shotokalungin (in all her incarnations), the pliant Jane, the mischievous Queen Elizabeth 1 to the earless charlatan Kelley, the truly grotesque Bartlett Greene and the sinister Emperor Rudolph1, John Dee heads a cast which lingers in the mind long after the book has been put down.

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