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I begin to write the article, this is what I have till now.

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The unbelievable world of the doubtful Nagar. (Draft)

By August Bird.

Italo Calvino in his lecture about multiplicity talks about the contemporary novel as an encyclopedia, as a method of knowledge, and above all as a network of connections between the events, the people, and the things of the world. This is a holistic vision of literature, is the belief that a book can cover all the reality, and is an apology to the aspiration to contain the universe in paper in words. Within the examples that he gives are found the next authors:

Carlo Emilio Gadda: who sees the world as a system of systems, as a tangled skein of yarn where the simultaneous presence of the most disparate element converge to determine every event.

Robert Musil: for whom the knowledge is the awareness of the incompatibilities of two opposite polarities. One of this he calls exactitude or pure spirit while the other he calls soul or irrationality.

Marcel Proust: the network that links all things is composed of points in space-time occupied in succession by everyone, which brings about an infinite multiplication of space and time. The world expand until it can no longer be grasped, and the knowledge it´s attained by suffering this intangibility.

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In Calvino lecture are also mentioned Goethe, Lichtenberg, Lucretius, Boccaccio, Novalis, Mallarme and Flaubert, all of them with the aspiration of an absolute book, one book about emptiness, about the void, about the universe, about the kosmos. They dream with the ultimate book, with The Empty Book of the World.

Noe Nagar try to write this book and he called his work The Book of Sand. The edition that end in my hands it´s the English version translated by E Renzi in 1918, the original —according to Renzi— was written in the legible parts in Spanish using Hebrew and Greek characters and in the most obscure parts it was in a similar language to the Voynich Manuscript.

There seems to be no more copies of this book, neither translated or in the original. Also the existence of Noe Nagar it´s in the better case doubtful. In the brief preface of the book Renzi says that Nagar was surely Jew raised in family of rabbis, though, Nagar was not a practicing of Judaism, his beliefs were heterogeneous, he used to practice a kind of syncretic religion that —according to Renzi— Nagar made up mixing Egyptian and Greek polytheism with Semitic monotheism and oriental values.

Nagar personal god was Toth also known as Hermes Trimegisto or Mercurio. Renzi claim that The Book of Sand is Nagar compilation of the forty-two books that Hermes himself wrote and that contain everything. The book that Lawry let me has a hard leather cover with a silver engraving of a half-moon and an Egyptian bird standing on it. The pages are unnumbered, there a thousand approximately. About the content of the book I have to agree with Lawry, it´s fiction, there are beautiful descriptions of unbelievable deserts of red sand in which you can observe and unforgettable view when the two suns are set. There is a classification of animals and plants that cannot be anything else that magical. The only thing that seems real in that book it´s the human story, though, it may be more accurate to say humanoid history. In the world that Nagar describe the men are equally capable of greatness, kindness, horror and suffering that in this world. In his book Nagar does not name any man any land, there are kings, queens, servants, killers, plains, mountains, but there are not proper nouns for this. He wrote like a seer that seems to know everything but does not tell the details.