Literary notes about golem (AI summary)
In literature, the word "golem" is often employed to evoke an image of a being that is simultaneously animate and inanimate, existing on the boundary between monstrous creation and machine-like obedience. Authors describe it as lumbering and ponderous, its movements marked by an almost mechanical inevitability [1, 2]. At times, the golem’s physicality contrasts sharply with the spontaneity of a living man [3], yet in other passages it is granted a distinct voice or presence, capable of interaction and even subtle human-like responses [4, 5]. Additionally, its mythic origins and folkloric associations infuse the character with an enigmatic aura, blending ancient magical traditions with modern literary symbolism [6, 7, 8].
- Slowly, gratingly, the golem turned and lumbered out of the cave, clumsy and ponderous.
— from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow - The golem had dragged itself into this corner and had fallen to mud.
— from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow - A live man moves different than a golem.
— from It Could Be Anything by Keith Laumer - "Perhaps I'd better call the headwaiter, sir," the golem said stiffly.
— from It Could Be Anything by Keith Laumer - The golem bent its head slightly and looked him in the eye.
— from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow - When they found Davey at last, it was in the golem’s cave, on the other side of the mountain.
— from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow - "The Golem," by Meyrink , is a good example of this; also the Thibetan wizard in Meyrink's "Fledermäusen," who lets the world-war loose by magic.
— from Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology by C. G. (Carl Gustav) Jung - [30] One of the Gaons at Wilna was possessed of the miraculous power to create {36} a Golem, a homunculus.
— from The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener
