Golem Novels

[David Morris]

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068898

Idol Worship
Does the world need another golem novel?

Anyone who pays attention to contemporary fiction—especially, but not 
exclusively, fiction by Jewish writers—knows that the golem is a hot 
property. Since Cynthia Ozick's The Puttermesser Papers in 1998, golems have 
found their way into novels of every type—comic and tragic, allegorical and 
magic-realist. It's possible that this is nothing more than a fad, the 
literary equivalent of Hollywood's enthusiasm for Kabbalah. But the golem 
population explosion also suggests that the ancient legend has become a way 
to explore some very modern problems.


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