Priscilla from Alexandria

Maurice Magr (1877-1941) - French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, son of a lawyer and a famous journalist, whose strange life is more like a certain esoteric experiment. In 1890, being in Paris, Magra immediately plunged into the atmosphere of decadence, sex and opium. Intending to become a writer, he leads a bohemian life, communicates with the anarchists, smokes an opium in which he sees the gates to a different, metaphysical reality. Already his first book of poems "Song of People" (1898) Magr gained a loud success. Until 1913, three more books of his verses were published - Prose Magra began to write much later. But it was in the novels that his inimitable style appeared - a bizarre mixture of history, secret knowledge, poetry, occultism, legends, black magic, hallucinations and irony.
Roman "Priscilla from Alexandria", published in this volume, recreates a kind of atmosphere of the general picture of the life of Alexandria of the V century. N.E. And the main characters of the work are carriers of a specific circle of religious ideas and ideas of the era of finding Hellenism. Such is Priscilla, through the Christian contempt of the flesh and the earthly world, who came to their joyful statement