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An Eschatological Trilogy
Three Books to Assume the Western Identity
Eurocentric Heritage
The native European cultural patrimony manages to abound with works that are remarkably similar and connected, yet remain completely unique, authentically reviving and perpetuating the same symbolic archetypes.
It is the European, broadly-shaped yet metaphysically unified, cultural space that beats the key to the literary greatness that is inherited from inspired talent to talent, from a creator, writer, poet, thinker to another one of the next generation.
Beginning with Homer, through Virgil, Dante, and Goethe, whose Faust is the closest to the modern postmodern soul, a European cycle of creative fecundity is cyclically asserted from time to time, in each age, in different shapes.
One trait of a great expanded culture thus takes a formidable shape of being self-referential: each author is in implicit or sometimes even open dialogue with predecessors — Dante with Virgil, Goethe with both, Bulgakov with Goethe.
Language and thinking (the tool for which is philosophy) are the two pillars of this cycle, and it so happens that it is poetry that brings together the epochal and elevated sense of both.
