The Fakir of Florence: A novel in three layers - Paperback

by Paul Cudenec (Author)

Perantulo is a wandering sage, spreading his mystic pagan wisdom from Khaluvia to Mesqa-Murro, from the chestnut forests of Sevennola to the rain-lashed archipelago of Prydina. He is the fictional creation of "il fachiro", an Eastern philosopher who arrived in Renaissance Florence in 1459 and challenged Cosimo di Medici and Marsilio Ficino's Neoplatonist revival with his own empowering and anarchic metaphysics. Paul is a writer visiting 21st century Italy who, while laying himself open to inspiration from the energies and art of the Florentine past, comes across an historical account of "il fachiro" and his fables. But he, too, resides inside a book - on one of the three layers of reality within "The Fakir of Florence".

Author Biography

The Fakir of Florence is the first novel from Paul Cudenec, who is already known for non-fiction titles such as "Forms of Freedom" and "The Stifled Soul of Humankind". His 2013 work "The Anarchist Revelation: Being What We're Meant to Be" is described by John Zerzan in "Why Hope? The Stand Against Civilization" as "the least pessimistic book I can recall reading... It brings anarchist resistance and the spirit together in a very wide-ranging and powerful contribution". A review by anarchist writer Gabriel Kuhn adds: "The book attempts no less than equipping contemporary anarchism with a footing that is often neglected: the transformation not only of society's structures but also of people's souls".