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Foreword
ОглавлениеTyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
– William Blake, “The Tyger”
There’s always a mystery in the genre of spy novels, woven into intricate plot twists. Characters display the highest skill in cunning and stealth as they find themselves at the ground zero of the eternal struggle between the forces of order and chaos, friends and foes. A spy novel is always a vast geography and a chess match of two, with the fate of nations and all of humanity at stake. There’s no room for the unexplained in the game – because the secret always comes to the surface.
In the novel “Incredible Spy Detective” we not only see the rational side of the world through the canonical view of an MI6 agent, but also the irrational perspective of those who create their own universes. The method of active imagination, known from the works of Carl Jung, found its reflection in the detective story where characters travel not only across the globe (Moscow, London, Paris, Florence), but also between eras, drawing knowledge from the works of their predecessors. As soon as the key to understanding the unconscious processes is found, the irrational becomes the unique detective method and begins to supplement the strict and logical worldview of the agent.
Alchemy is an algorithm of inner transformation, the personal evolution of an individual that permeates the works of great artists throughout the centuries. In the novel, the reader will encounter the works of Dante Alighieri, William Blake, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Sandro Botticelli, John le Carré, and will read the author’s translation and interpretation of famous texts and paintings – from a new angle.
“Incredible Spy Detective” is dedicated to all those who, midway upon the journey of life, began to find themselves, and to all poets, misunderstood and lone architects of their universes, serving the craft of the artist, composing sweet fruits of illusion with the precious core of truth inside – to be carried through centuries, passed on from generation to generation, against all odds.
“So you’re a pathological liar.”
“No, I am an MI6 agent.”