Històries del mag Setne

Prince Setne Khaemwaset, son of Ramses II, is credited with many wonderful stories, full of magic and adventure, that delighted the ancient Egyptians for a millennium. The book you have in your hands opens with two of these stories, written on papyrus at the end of a mythical era, and continues with a series of narratives that reflect the fabulous image that dream Egypt has built within. the literary tradition for more than two thousand years. Greek, Coptic, and medieval texts, but also by mystery authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, or H. P. Lovecraft, and spiritualists such as Ada Goodrich-Freer; from postmodern authors such as Ishmael Reed, to classics of German Romanticism such as Friedrich Schiller, to the light but definitive imprint of Catalan authors such as Apeles Mestres and Eduard Toda. In the anthology you have in your hands you will find mummies, curses, pyramids and prodigious discoveries. And you may, when you open this book, say the same thing as Howard Carter said when he glimpsed Tutankhamun's tomb through a hole: "I see wonderful things in it!"