French writer and traveler J.-M. G. Le Clézio was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature as “an explorer of the essence of the human being beyond and within the dominant civilization.” Several years spent among the indigenous peoples of Central America influenced, as Le Clézio himself admits, all his work and even the very way he thinks. As a result, the book “The Festival of Fetters” appeared—a search for answers to the eternal questions of existence and the challenges of today in the mysticism of ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica.