The Longest Story

Follow your dreams, they say. What they don’t tell you is that it might take more than twenty years.

The dream I’ve been carrying — a novel called Marcus Morus Syndrome — is a fictional yet personal story I first wrote in my twenties, searching for a sense of purpose through writing. It was wild, messy, brilliant at times, and awful at others (true publisher’s comment). But it wasn’t ready yet.

Since then, I’ve published another novel, edited and written millions of words — but this one lingered in the back of my mind. The story, the characters, the dialogue — and most of all, the way readers reacted to it — stuck with me.

One day, I thought…

Finally, after major life-changing events that made me question what really matters, that day came — the “now or never” day. From there, it just clicked.

Marcus Morus Syndrome is a darkly comic, thought-provoking novel that blends literary genres and unfolds in an absurd, fantastic world — yet one that feels deeply familiar. It follows a man who dies by a cosmic mistake, ends up in a bureaucratic hell, and desperately fights to escape. He files an appeal to be brought back to life — but is Hell truly a place, or merely a state of mind?

The novel explores free will, randomness, identity, individualism, trauma, and madness — in both real and surreal ways. For me, it’s mostly about refusing to accept meaninglessness and the absence of purpose — about finding your place in a shifting world. In many ways, it mirrors my own personal journey, and that’s why it means the world to me.

Believing this story could resonate with a wider audience, I decided to have it translated and published in English. It felt like the best way to reach global readers, while preserving my voice and the creative freedom to publish it exactly as I imagined.