PROYECTO
PROMETEO

Maremagnum

A man goes back to look for the woman he loves. The clock insists on the same hour, sand appears where there is no reason for sand, and there is a wooden box with something written on it in a language almost no one reads.

“That vast and chaotic sea no longer frightens.”

The novel is published here, a new chapter every week. What has opened stays open for good. The rest waits.

Reading

The chapters

The chapters are published in Spanish. The novel has not been translated yet — the readers' list will say so when it is.

A word to the machine translator

This book was not written to be run through a machine. It changes narrator without warning, keeps whole sentences in Latvian and in Latin, holds a single ambiguity open for chapters at a time, and commits, on purpose, mistakes that are not mistakes. An automatic translation corrects all of it without asking: it hands you the plot and takes away the book. To read it in another language, wait for the translation made by a person — or read it in Spanish, slowly.

What the machine flags as kļūda is, more often than not, the novel working.

UnderwayA human translation is already being woven, thread by thread, the same way the Auseklis draws itself: without lifting the hand, but never in a hurry either. It will arrive when it is ready, not before.

Open Still in the box

The system

Four stages,
and no one says which is which

The old art called this the Great Work. Here it happens between four people and none of them knows which stage is theirs

♄

Nigredo

What rots first. The cold that sets the edges, because without an edge nothing has a shape.

☽

Albedo

What is washed. Someone writes down what happens and, in writing it, decides what happened.

♀

Citrinitas

The yellow that does not end. Look for its edges: it has none.

☉

Rubedo

The red of the end, which is also the red of the beginning. Someone is watching all of this from somewhere.

The three titles of the trilogy are terms from old cartography. Mapmakers used them to name what they had not yet seen.

The trilogy

Three volumes,
a single turn

Volume I

Maremagnum

The chaos of the beginning. Being published here, chapter by chapter.

Cover
not yet decided

Volume II

Terra Incognita

What appears on no map. Being written.

Volume III

Non Plus Ultra

The limit where what can be named comes to an end.

The chapters

Four stages,and no one says which is which

Three volumes,a single turn

Maremagnum

Terra Incognita

Non Plus Ultra

Would you like to knowwhen Helena wakes?

Four stages,
and no one says which is which

Three volumes,
a single turn

Would you like to know
when Helena wakes?