{"product_id":"arriton-by-ayis-lertas","title":"Arriton by Ayis Lertas","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"603\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"245\"\u003eArriton\u003c\/em\u003e is an enigmatic work presented as a fragmentary survival of a lost esoteric tradition — as if discovered among the disordered bookstalls of an ancient, forgotten city. To open it is to enter a field of gnostic imagery, magical alphabets, defixiones, and echoes of the Greek Magical Papyri, unfolding according to a logic that is coherent yet entirely alien.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"605\" data-end=\"751\"\u003eIt is conceived as a \u003cstrong data-start=\"626\" data-end=\"648\"\u003eBorgesian artefact\u003c\/strong\u003e: a book that behaves less like a narrative and more like an immersion into an unknown symbolic system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-section-id=\"cibsat\" data-start=\"753\" data-end=\"765\"\u003eOverview\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"767\" data-end=\"1067\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"vvx3u2\" data-start=\"767\" data-end=\"801\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-start=\"769\" data-end=\"780\"\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4vo (245 × 210 mm)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"1kgvkav\" data-start=\"802\" data-end=\"820\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"814\"\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"9budj6\" data-start=\"821\" data-end=\"860\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-start=\"823\" data-end=\"841\"\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92 colour images\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"9w86yx\" data-start=\"861\" data-end=\"895\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"875\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Standard hardback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"fz43vp\" data-start=\"896\" data-end=\"994\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-start=\"898\" data-end=\"910\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Burgundy cloth with gold stamping front and back, gold spine label, tan endpapers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"oec7t7\" data-start=\"995\" data-end=\"1017\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-start=\"997\" data-end=\"1007\"\u003ePaper:\u003c\/strong\u003e 170 gsm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-section-id=\"jdxtm5\" data-start=\"1018\" data-end=\"1048\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-start=\"1020\" data-end=\"1035\"\u003eLimitation:\u003c\/strong\u003e 613 copies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-section-id=\"3h1ku8\" data-start=\"1069\" data-end=\"1084\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1086\" data-end=\"1408\"\u003eComprising 92 leaves of dense calligraphic imagery, ideograms, and magical charaktêres, \u003cem data-start=\"1174\" data-end=\"1183\"\u003eArriton\u003c\/em\u003e presents itself as a surviving manuscript fragment — eroded, partial, and resistant to translation. Its pages resemble relics from a lost library, where meaning is unstable and symbolic language replaces narrative structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1410\" data-end=\"1609\"\u003eRather than explaining magic, \u003cem data-start=\"1440\" data-end=\"1449\"\u003eArriton\u003c\/em\u003e functions as an object of contemplation. It invites the reader into a suspended interpretive space where sign, form, and pattern become the primary experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1611\" data-end=\"1744\"\u003eIt belongs to the rare category of \u003cstrong data-start=\"1646\" data-end=\"1695\"\u003e“magical books” rather than books about magic\u003c\/strong\u003e — works intended to be entered rather than read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-section-id=\"ua5cwe\" data-start=\"1746\" data-end=\"1767\"\u003eCritical response\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cblockquote data-start=\"1769\" data-end=\"1975\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1771\" data-end=\"1975\"\u003e“Preliminary impressions of these lamp-blackened shades captured on desert-dry parchment evoke narrative origins blown in on perfumed zephyrs from distant Cathay and Arabia…”\u003cbr data-start=\"1945\" data-end=\"1948\"\u003e— Mark Hewitt, \u003cem data-start=\"1963\" data-end=\"1975\"\u003eParalibrum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Medici Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53923093971285,"sku":null,"price":47.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1047\/8420\/0021\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_315417aa-e082-4e04-b809-7b45050776d3.jpg?v=1778720322","url":"https:\/\/www.medicibooks.com\/products\/arriton-by-ayis-lertas","provider":"Medici Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}