The Human Tragedy

A descent into silence. A world rebuilt through satire. A cosmic library of redemption.

The Human Tragedy, Gor Galstyan's profound triptych of theatrical novels, is a metaphysical odyssey through the soul of humanity. Echoing the structure of Dante's Divine Comedy—Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven—this work reimagines the tragic arc of the 20th century as theater, where history, laughter, and memory collide under a single cosmic spotlight.

Book One: The Silent Reich is a descent into historical Hell. Galstyan strips away the myth of monstrosity and reveals a more terrifying truth: that evil arises not through demonic possession but through ordinary silence, rationality, and fear. From the battlefields of World War I to the beer halls, printing presses, and propaganda studios of interwar Germany, we follow Adolf Hitler not as a villain caricature, but as a vessel emptied by violence and filled with the rage and ambitions of others. Each chapter dramatizes a moral spiral, featuring figures like Goebbels, Göring, Himmler, and Streicher, each representing a deeper circle of complicity and fanaticism. Here, Hell is polite. Bureaucratic. Efficient. It is the shrug. The sigh. The educated man's refusal to speak up.