All Men Are Mortal

Interesting Facts

• At the center of the story is the mysterious Raimon Foré, a man who drank the elixir of immortality and is forced to wander through the centuries, witnessing the fall of empires, the disappearance of civilizations, and the deaths of loved ones.
• The novel masterfully combines philosophical reflections on the transience of existence with vivid historical sketches: together with the protagonist, the reader finds themselves in medieval Italy, on the barricades of revolutionary France, and in the bustling Paris of the twentieth century.
• The book presents a sharp contradiction between eternal life and the human capacity for love, compassion, and passion, which cannot outlast time.
• The author skillfully weaves the motif of theater into the narrative, where the stage becomes a symbol of human life, and immortality — a heavy burden that deprives the hero of meaning and joy.
• The novel is filled with allusions to the Faust myth, but instead of triumph over death, it resounds with the tragedy of loneliness and the impossibility of being truly alive without finitude.