ARCANA OF DESIRE - Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi

Love, madness, exoticism, Freemasonry, myth: all these elements make up a tale of wandering along the pathway of existence.

A story set in the autumn of 2010 along the Nile and in France (Paris, Chartres, Rheims). A novel where the quest for immortality is intertwined with a love story. On a voyage to Egypt, the architect Martin de Freycenet-Latour falls in love with a new Nefertiti.

The author, like an alchemist, sweeps away the solitude of beings to revitalize the music of the spheres through a course of initiation and emancipation.

Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi is the founder of Inism, an international avant-garde movement created in Paris which has spread especially in Europe and the Americas. El Doctor Sax has previously published his novel Return to Zanzibar in David W. Seaman’s English translation.

Novel translated from the French by David W. Seaman, professor of French literature at Georgia Southern University, specializing in the avant-garde.

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RETURN TO ZANZIBAR - Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi

Return to Zanzibar, a French novel first published in 2008 by Editions du Rocher, and the following year in paperback by Motifs, is an inspired and powerful road movie of incredible originality, involving alchemy research, and imbued with visions of antiquity. In 2013 it was translated into Italian for Pironti Editions in Naples. The lover of poet Julius Applemayer has left without a word, leaving behind only an assortment of unusual and mysterious objects: an edition of Arthur Rimbaud’s works, a post card showing a fresco of the Queen of Sheba, a golden pendant, an Ethiopian banknote, two sheets of enigmatic signs…. On the trail of the fugitive Noname, Julius undertakes a wild voyage that takes him from Ethiopia to Greece, passing through Zanzibar, Tanzania, Togo, France and Italy. Following Rimbaud’s African trail, Julius tries to find meaning in the objects left by the runaway, but will that be enough to lead him to her?

Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi, writer, artist and university professor, is the founder of Inismo, an international literary and artistic movement created in Paris in 1980. An expert author in narrative techniques which he exploits to offer a work in a new genre. Novel translated from the French by David W. Seaman, professor of French literature at Georgia Southern University, specializing in the avant-garde.

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