The Magus

"The Magus" is a stunner, magnificent in ambition, supple and gorgeous in execution. It fits no neat category; it is at once a pyrotechnical extravaganza, a wild, hilarious charade, a dynamo of suspense and horror, a profoundly serious probing into the nature of moral consciousness, a dizzying, elec......more

We gravitate to mysteries… The great unknown calls us… The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? Straight from the biblical times temptation is the main moving force that pushes humanity to seek knowledge. And who cares if our know......more

My students like to use the made up word, "unputdownable." I always laugh at this. I can always put down a book, I can even put down this one. The problem is, I can't seem to stop picking it up again. We are thrown, whether we like it or not into the addled frantic mind of Nicholas Urfe, a man in the......more

Pe scurt: 1. Maurice Conchis, milionarul excentric și, probabil, paranoic din insula grecească Phraxos, a trăit cîndva o experiență limită. În timpul celui de-al doilea război mondial, un ofițer german l-a pus în fața unei dileme maligne. Era primar al insulei: „ofițerul l-a silit să aleagă [deși ale......more