Mr. Lazar Zahan’s fourth novel, The Velvet Bell, offers the reader joy of a witnessing a mythical approach to a heated debate on the Apollonian/ Dionysian dichotomy. The narrative is an invitation to meditation on the theme of the present, which is the most important in our existential experiences. A genuine love novel, The Velvet Bell is a diegesis meant to reassess the ancestral myths in a postmodern way, analysing the relation between the artist and the work of art, especially the certainty that life is a circle in which we are but insignificant dots drawn in the infinite.