Angel of the western window. 2nd edition. MARIRINK G.

verificetur in aeternis (certified by eternity - lat.) - it should be pulled on the cover of the last novel by Gustav Mayric (1868-1932). For the “Angel of the Western Window” (1927) is undoubtedly the best of what has ever been written about alchemy, “not the purely practical alchemy that is occupied by the only transformation of distant metals into gold, but of that secret art of kings, which transmutes the man himself, his dark, perishable nature, into eternal, luminous, never losing consciousness of his I creature. " The most impressive examples of the “universal mind” of the Renaissance: a mathematician who, three centuries before Lobachevsky, spoke of the fourth dimension, an outstanding linguist, cosmographer, alchemist and court astrologer Elizabeth I. No, the Austrian writer was not going to “make the world to make the world with another historical novel, he I just decided to write a “double novel”: “to instill” John di to his distant descendant, or, if you like, “instill” the 16th century by the age of XX...

, for which esoteric knowledge has always served as a source of inspiration, So skillfully balance, in the complex polyphonic structure of the text, such seemingly distant traditions as hermeticism and tantra, Kabbalah and Celtic cults, that this did not at all violate the harmony of the literary composition, on the contrary, made the “angel of the western window” the most perfect work of the writer. < /p>

The book is equipped with an extensive commenting device, which, along with the introductory article and comments of the translator, includes the most interesting materials from the previous editions of the novel, allowing not only to look at this masterpiece of “fantastic reality” from various, sometimes diametrically opposite. angles, but also to figure out, “where fantasy ends in this labyrinth book and reality begins.”

the conjunator of the hooks in.

2nd edition, stereotypical.