E-book “Deceptive Elysium, or the Land of False Desires”

Imagine a book that holds within it scenes set in a prison, a psychiatric hospital, an aeroplane, a portrait of the prehistoric Universe and much more that seems impossible to combine. Each part quite literally hurls the reader into a new reality. The author now carries us to another place or time, now plunges us into the depths of a troubled mind or the anguish-wrapped soul of a character. And the more pages the reader devours, the more of the connections and interweavings they manage to catch — connections that ultimately merge into a single, finished thought.

Using the genre of philosophical fantasy, the author tears apart mental clichés and the settled perception of the true and the false, reveals the other side of the coin — that which we never pause to consider, never notice — and gently leads readers toward answers to the eternal, fundamental questions of being.

The search for the road to oneself is best begun by overcoming formulaic thinking and grasping who you are not. Loosened fences tend to buckle and fall — just as the boundaries of one’s own worldview, once cracked, may evaporate, opening the reader’s eyes to something greater…