Wiedergeburt des Melchior Dronte

Count Melchior Dronte descends through the rotting aristocracy of old Vienna, surrounded by decadence and a father whose cruelty knows no bounds. Fleeing to military service, he burns across Europe in dissipation, yet everywhere he encounters the Ewli, a strange Arab saint who appears like a mirror of divine judgment, and the Devil himself, who knows his weaknesses intimately. But nothing anchors Melchior like his memory of Aglaja, his first love, dead before she could be his, who returns to him in successive reincarnations, always near, always lost. As the French Revolution erupts and swallows everything he knows, Melchior faces his final transformation: must he renounce the cruelties of his world entirely and become something new, or lose Aglaja forever? Busson's masterpiece fuses Gothic horror with mystical philosophy in a fever dream of reincarnation, showing love that refuses to die across centuries of suffering.