graphic concept and layout by Boyan Manchev / strx
font: Spectral by Jean-Baptiste Levée
format: 145 / 180 mm
printing: Simolini-94
"Meteor, Sofia, 2022
ISBN: 978-619-7291-33-9
On June 8, 1614. Pietro della Valle, a young Roman nobleman, sets out for the East as a pilgrim to the Holy Land. But the voyage of the future discoverer of the cultures of the East is irrepressibly transformed into a horizontal descent into Hell - each further passage to the East opens up a new circle of hell.
After twelve years, the circle of De Vale's odyssey closes: on March 28, 1626, a ghostly Eurydice returns to the Eternal City of Shadows.
Boyan Manchev's philosophical poem can be read as an allegorical account of the fate of the body; of what is to come; of music. But there is also an echo of music beyond any narrative - music that transcends time, breath:
The Sibyl sings.
The book is published with the financial support of the National Culture Fund.