Download or read book The Book of Things Unknown written by Andrei Dîrl?u and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Jorge Luis Borges' famous story "The Zahir" as a reference or "hypotext," The Book of Things Unknown offers a surprising variant. Set in the cultural framework of post-Communist Orthodox Romania, Simon Palamas' love of books, his marriage, and his travels lead him on a spiritual and literary quest through diverse religious and literary traditions (Chinese mythology; Sufi; Hindu and Buddhist mysticism; and both Western and Eastern Orthodox Christianity), yielding an astonishing end to the journey.