Meliadus controlled himself with difficulty and waited while the ranks drew back to admit him. These guards, members of the King-Emperor’s own Order of the Mantis and wearing the great jeweled insect masks belonging to that Order, seemed reluctant to let him pass through. The song was included as a bonus track on the Griffin Records rerelease of the Michael Moorcock and Deep Fix album The New Worlds Fair.The vast doors parted and Baron Meliadus, but lately returned from Yel, walked into the throne room of his King-Emperor to report his failures and his discoveries.Īs Meliadus entered the room, whose roof seemed so tall as to be one with the heavens and whose walls were so distant as to seem to encompass an entire country, his way was blocked by a double line of guards. Moorcock also recorded and released a single called "Brothel in Rosenstrasse". Moorcock describes Mirenburg as "an attempt to produce an ideal middle European city", and it is believed to be based partly on Prague. Although it takes place in a fictitious location-the free city of Mirenburg, capital of a similarly fictitious independent state bordering Germany called Waldenstein-it is otherwise realistic in content. Unlike other Bek stories, this novel is not a fantasy. The standard German spelling of the name in the novel's title is "Rosenstraße" (Street of Roses). The novel is written as Bek's memoir of a dying, demented man, in which he recalls his time with a bi-sexual teenage nymphet girl and how they take refuge in a superior brothel in a German city under siege during a 19th-century war. The main character is Rickhardt von Bek, a member of the family of Ulrich von Bek which is central to some of Moorcock's other fantasy novels, notably The War Hound and the World's Pain, The City in the Autumn Stars, and The Dragon in the Sword.
The Brothel in Rosenstrasse is a 1982 novel by Michael Moorcock.
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