The Gospel of Morpheus

The leitmotif of the book “The Gospel of Morpheus” is the theme of love. While traveling, the novel’s main character finds himself in a strange City—one that isn’t marked on any map—where a whole series of unusual adventures happen to him, and where he experiences his own personal love drama. The novel is an attempt to comprehend the essence of love—not simply to experience it—because the main character analyzes and dissects his feelings, trying to move them from the realm of emotions to the realm of intellect. At the same time, everything that happens is very much like a dream—or even a whole chain of dreams (both conscious and not, mystical and realistic). Life that resembles a dream: sleep as a means of overcoming death and stepping into other aspects of life. Death, as one of the aspects of love. All of this is intertwined…