Possession

What is this in front of us? A detective novel of ideas? A modern take on a female Gothic novel? A knightly romance in a new form? All together—and something more: a deeply modern work that gathers many traditions and at the same time bears the seal of genuine inspiration and innovation. In it, the mystery of the English spirit and English greatness shimmers in different facets. But above all, this is a book about living people (even if some of them have been dead for a long time)—about images that reach the reader as if by obsession; about love, rebellious and wild passion that conquers time and death; about the aspirations of spirit and flesh—earthly and elevated, obvious and hidden; and about the divine Plan, glimpsed through the tragic and comic patterns of human fate...

Through the mirror-labyrinth of the plot, the characters of this strange narrative make their way into a mysterious past: residents of the age of people—into the age of heroes, and residents of the age of heroes—into the age of gods. Two elements rule these pages—an element of mind, of bright thought, almost sensuous; and an element of subtle eroticism, born from the contact of coarse matter of life with tender fabrics of fantasy.