The procedure

Description

In the late-sixteenth century, Rabbi Jehudah Low, in order to guarantee the safety of the Jews in Prague, tries to make a golem with the aid of a third-century Cabalist text. Four hundred years later Viktor Werner, a biologist, causes an international uproar when he creates in his laboratory a complex organic clay crystal that can reproduce and which has a metabolism. He has, in effect, manufactured a primitive organism out of inorganic materials. We learn of Viktor's life after his discovery as he starts new research and is pursued by his own inner and outer demons. In this elegantly written and immaculately constructed story of two men who suffer similar punishments for their hubris, Harry Mulisch attempts nothing less than to unravel the structure and meaning of man's being.

Description

A sixteenth-century rabbi creates a golem to protect the Jews of prague. Four hundred years later, a Dutch biologist creates an organic clay crystal that can reproduce itself and has a metabolism.

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Other Editions

• The procedureViking2001-01-01
• De procedureBezige Bij1998-01-01
• Die ProzedurPaperbackRowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag2000-10-01
• The procedureViking2001-01-01
• La ProcédurePaperbackGallimard2001-09-30
• Die Prozedur. Sonderausgabe.HardcoverRowohlt Tb.2001-11-01