The Firebird, the Idolious Hermes and the Passage of Eos (Hardcover)

📖 From the Cover

A Mythopoetic Thriller

In a fractured reality where Hermes controls the passage between worlds, what descends from the higher realm is intercepted and set into circulation as image.
At the center stands the artist: a mediator who unknowingly receives signals from another order, only to see them captured and severed from their origin.

A vast network of imitation takes hold, reshaping what was never meant to be copied.
Behind apparent coincidence, a hidden structure begins to emerge, and perception itself becomes a controlled field.
To break through it, the artist must cross a dangerous threshold where image and origin diverge, and risk losing identity within the very system that reflects it.

For Helen was never in Troy.
Only her image was.
And here, the same displacement returns.

The Passage of Eos is a perilous crossing where what was divided is forced back into proximity, and where triumph and freedom can be claimed only by risking the passage itself, until a sudden reversal unfolds, seizing the breath like a revelation no one was prepared to face.

This mythopoetic thriller concludes in an unexpected manner, one that peculiarly resonates with the unfolding of worldwide cosmic events.

📜 Editorial Description

A premium colour printed novel where myth, mystery, philosophy, poetic prose, and visual art converge into a single narrative experience.

Presented as a sequence of written tableaux accompanied by large-format photographic works, the book explores imitation, perception, metaphysical displacement, and the necessary yet perilous passage between worlds.

Featuring 23 photographs by Maria Alexea, selected as visual echoes and counterpoints to the novel’s written tableaux.
No generative AI was used.

Edition details

• English edition
• Hardcover — Second Edition (2026)
• Premium colour printed edition
• Large-format illustrated volume (20.96 × 27.94 cm / 8.25 × 11 inches)
• 23 photographic plates
• 194 pages