Historical Fiction

Fantasy

Mature

The Human Tragedy

From ashes to ashesBy Gor Galstyan

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Length3h 46m

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The Human Tragedy is a bold trilogy of theatrical novels that reimagines Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise for an age marked by genocide, irony, and forgotten stories. Book I, The Silent Reich, descends into a historical Hell where silence becomes complicity and ordinary men become instruments of evil. Book II, Laughter in the Shadows, enters a purgatory of masks, mirrors, and satire, where a wounded clown survives through performance, memory, and the ghostly counsel of Molière. Book III, The Librarian of Forgotten Stories, reveals a flawed paradise where angels, demons, myths, and the Devil himself debate what humanity chooses to remember or erase. Blending philosophy, mythology, history, satire, and drama, The Human Tragedy is a haunting literary requiem for the modern age. Written with the voice of a playwright and the soul of a poet, it speaks to readers who seek dark beauty, profound questions, and the fragile hope hidden inside tragedy.

Audiobook details

GenreHistorical Fiction, Fantasy

Length3 hrs 46 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateApr 14, 2026

LanguageEnglish

1Intro

15NINTH CIRCLE: THE SILENCE OF DEATH OR INDIFFERENCE

2PROLOGUE (How to read this book)

16BOOK TWO: THE LAUGHTER IN THE SHADOWS

3BOOK ONE: THE SILENT REICH

17THE STUDIO

4THE BATTLEFIELD

18THE PREMIERE

5THE HOSPITAL

19THE BREAKDOWN

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6THE STREETS OF MUNICH

20THE OVATION

7FIRST CIRCLE: NATIONAL HUMILIATION (Erich Ludendorff)

21POST-TITLES SCENE:

8SECOND CIRCLE: THE ENEMY WITHIN (Julius Streicher)

22BOOK THREE: THE FORGOTTEN LIBRIARIAN OR THE SATIRE IN HELL

9THIRD CIRCLE: MASS MOBILIZATION (Hermann Göring)

23THE FORGOTTEN LIBRARIAN

10FOURTH CIRCLE: THE SEDUCTION OF THE MIND (Joseph Goebbels)

24THE ARRIVAL

11FIFTH CIRCLE: THE SHADOW OF LOYALTY (Martin Bormann)

25THE DEVIL’S HEART

12SIXTH CIRCLE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF TERROR (Heinrich Himmler)

26HEAVEN AND HELL AT ONE TABLE

13SEVENTH CIRCLE: THE PROFITEER OF WAR (Albert Speer)

27THE MOMENT OF …

14EIGHTH CIRCLE: THE CRUCIBLE OF FANATICISM (Rudolf Hess)

28EPILOGUE

About the author

Gor Galstyan

Gor Galstyan is a writer, technologist, and founder of Cogito Liberum. His work blends philosophy, mythology, satire, and theatrical storytelling to examine faith, power, identity, and the human condition. He is the author of The Universal Stage: A Trial of Mind and Soul and The Human Tragedy, a metaphysical trilogy inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. Through his writing, Galstyan explores the eternal conflict between knowledge and belief, freedom and authority, tragedy and transcendence.View all by Gor Galstyan