The dead lover

The translator: Mohamed Ali Al-Yousifi Type of literature: French literature Number of pages: 404 pages Publisher: Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority Cover: Hardcover Nothing truly dies Everything always exists And no one can completely eliminate what once existed Every act, every word, every shape, every idea Fell into the cosmic ocean of things In which it produces expanding circles until the edges of eternity The physical image only fades away in vulgar gazes And the specters that separate from it Build eternity The hero Paris still kidnaps Helen in an unknown region of space And Cleopatra's ship, Cades, still blows its silken sails on the blue waters of the Tarsus River, Another perfect one, and there are minds that are full and strong Able to bring back to them seemingly extinct centuries And to make dead characters in everyone's eyes live again Faust's daughter Tindar took as a mistress, And moved her to his Gothic palace From the depths of Hades, the mysterious abyss of the underworld And Octavian has just lived a day in the era of Titus To be loved by Aria Martchela, Daughter of Arios Diomede, Sleeping at this moment near him on an ancient bed in a city everyone thinks is ruined.