650 pages long, all of which were necessary for the arrangement of this sort of initiatory romance, mystical experience (or, better, mythical), theatrical psychic manipulation alternately under the sun of Greece in the London fog, one of the few masterpieces work Successful romantic I know (as The Magic Mountain, in addition to the authors cited by the publisher), masterfully dealing with our poor mortal wandering into the unknown: can not reduce it to a few words, I can do that recommending mesmerizing reading.