Who hasn't dreamed of "knowing" what the gods are? Or at least of approaching the mystery of their existence? It's not forbidden to think that this is possible. To enter the great hall of mysteries, it's essential to simply let go of our attachment to those beliefs which, while speaking to us of God, actually bar us from Him. First, there is the word itself, then the meanings we ascribe to it. We rarely, if ever, think of returning to the source from which all that has taken the name of gods originated. From the Iliad to the Gospels, but taking unexpected detours, this book offers a journey. A journey that will allow us to grasp the extent of our denial, not so much of what it means to believe, but of what it implies. It opens doors to rarely explored realms: those of religious practices that partly escape any orthodoxy, those of the Anastenaria in Greece, those of mystics, those that populate science fiction novels, and those analyzed by neurobiologist Jill Bolte Taylor. It reveals some secrets of our cerebral and psychic functioning, particularly by explaining the nature of the Greek gods in light of Julian Jaynes's work. Finally, it propels us through literary works (Homer, Chrétien de Troyes, Fitzgerald, Philip K. Dick, Kluge), theological works (Boethius, Saint Anselm), and philosophical works (Plato, Nietzsche) to the threshold of the most well-known experience in our lands: that of Christ, through a fresh reinterpretation of the four canonical Gospels. Publication date: February 2, 2026. Order now

Paris, City of Lights! During a summer around 2010, Paul Drouët, struggling to cope with a painful past, finds an escape from his melancholy by surrendering himself completely to his passion for women. Real women, those with soft skin, charming breasts, and inviting thighs, but also others, goddesses transformed into images, those whom painters have always known how to render immortal and desirable. And to his other passion: wandering aimlessly through the streets, watching for a glance here, hoping for an encounter, letting himself be carried away by his memories, thus populating the city with his most intense fantasies. A modern-day Virgil, with two young Italian women and a few friends, he will show them a secret Paris. Their preference: to slip into certain museums, gardens, or private apartments at night, and to create, in these mythical places, a way of remaining true to the great Marquis's leitmotif: to create "living paintings"! And thanks to them, Paris becomes, for one summer, a paradise of pleasure. And from these wild nights will be born the desire to abolish the disease of death that governs the world, by means of a mad project inspired by Machiavelli and Boccaccio: to invent a "pleasure society." Publication date: September 25, 2024 Order now