Las historias del mago Setne y otros relatos del Egipto fantástico

This anthology, which traces a literary journey from Hellenistic times to the present day, unfolds at the same time the rich imaginary that the West has been building over two thousand years around the ancient and brilliant civilization of the Nile. The volume is opens with two Egyptian tales written in the Ptolemaic era -with the character of the magician Setne Khaemwaset as the protagonist-, where they wanted to see the germ of those motifs that would later spread to the rest of the world: pyramids, hieroglyphics, mummies and curses, the abyss of the millennia or the mystery of the arcane. And it continues, through other times, other authors and their stories, following that fabulous trail that, like a mythical quest d'Isis, runs through our entire history. Fantastic literature, archeology and the study of religions find in this unique book a perfect balance between the rigorous and the popular, fueling in us the fascination for a culture and a time to which we have never ceased to feel powerfully attracted.