Literary cafe
April 9, 2015 at 7:00 PM

Recently, Sanje Publishing House published another in a series of monographs about world traveler and writer Alma M. Karlin. The book Magical stories of ancient Egypt focuses on Alma's passion for the magical and mystical, and theosophy, which took on new dimensions when she encountered the ancient tradition of ancient Egypt.

Part of the monograph is also the previously unpublished novella Ein Artz unter Thutmose/ Thutmose's physician, which is one of Alma's last longer works.
The Sanje publishing house wrote about this particular novella:
"Even though she was already seriously ill, Karlin's novella about the court physician and priest Amneos from the "golden age of Egypt between the 7th and 6th millennium BC" was imbued with wit, mischief and humor, thus creating a story that the reader, in addition to rich spiritual messages and many life lessons, reads above all with a smile on their lips."
The text, which is today kept in typescript by both the Berlin State Library and the National and University Library in Ljubljana and represents a novelty in the author's book collection, was offered for publication by Alma immediately after its creation to her favorite publisher, Max Möhring from Leipzig, but its publication only came this year, as a tribute from the Sanje publishing house on the 125th anniversary of the writer's birth.

With the author of the accompanying words and great expert Alma Karlin Jernejo Jezernik will talk Marijan Pušavec.

The meeting will be in the Miško Knjižka cafe.

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