The Green Face Using elegant yet razor-sharp language, Gustav Meyrink-as is his wont-dissects this confused, lost, and lamenting world. He attempts to gather its colorful threads to create a diverse and livable world. Is humanity truly defeated on a cosmic level? Is there justice? What is our destiny as human beings? The New Literary Encyclopedia notes that "Gustav Meyrink, who emerged in the circles of Max Brod, Franz Kafka, and Paul Kornfeld, creates in his novels a wondrous and complete imaginary world." This is absolutely true. Moreover, as Carl Gustav Jung observed, he is a figure who draws from a profoundly visionary wellspring, like Dante, Nietzsche, Wagner, Spittler, William Blake, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Rider Haggard, Benoît, Coppin, and Barlach. Jung says of Meyrink's works: "The value and power lie in the strangeness and horror of the event... On the one hand, it is dazzling and strangely mystical, shattering human values ¿¿and beautiful images, intricate, complex, and terrifying with its eternal chaos." "The Green Face" was published a year after "The Golem," which appeared in 2017. These two works are among the most bizarre in German literature, as Meyrink employs the strange and the unconventional to illustrate the power of the spiritual world over the material world.