The Creativity Of My Words

  Monte Verità follows the lives of three people: an unnamed narrator, his friend Victor, and Victor's beautiful wife, Anna. The narrator, now a seventy-year-old man living in New York City, looks back on his youth. He and Victor were avid mountain climbers. The story centers on the mysterious twin peaks of Monte Verità in Switzerland, a mountain whose ominous motto is: "Nothing more is known." Years earlier, the trio traveled to the base of the mountain. The narrator recalls wanting to carve his life's story into stone so that future generations might read it, fall in love with the tale, and understand his perspective. While staying at the bottom of the mountain, they are hosted by an old man who encourages the couple to climb it, despite local legends of terrible occurrences. According to lore, an abbey sits atop Monte Verità, inhabited by an unknown number of priestesses; local women who attempt the climb never return. Inside the abbey, time stands still, the women...