Defence of Eternity

The second volume, where Hladík moves from history to thesis. Against the passing of time he argues, after Bradley and the Kabbalah, that nothing that has been can cease to have been: eternity is neither survival nor duration but the indestructibility of the accomplished, the having-been of things. It is the doctrine Borges stages in The Secret Miracle, and that the tragedy The Enemies will soon carry onto the boards. French text established from the Hladík autograph; the German original in appendix. The doctrinal heart of the Bibliotheca Hladikiana.