A unique book, a literary masterpiece sui generis. Rarely have I read a language so measured and serene, establishing such a distance of observation and narration, while also being so rich in meaning and emotionally charged to the extremes with energy and pain. The blending of times, even entire historical periods, is stunning, all with meticulous descriptions of sensorially vivid details. From the creation of the cosmos through billions of stars to the last drop of water wandering light-years away, from Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the titular Nicomachus to the present day of tourism, refugees, and wars, consumption and the disintegration of the world, all the beauty and all the horror!

Only a great and pure soul can bear all this pain of history and express all this light of the wonders of existence. Nomen omen: Dušan.

– Boris A. Novak