avox fantasia
In the avox fantasia series, we publish literature of the past and present that is distinguished by literary, artistic, and spiritual value within the broad realm of the fantastic. As an independent publishing house, we allow ourselves the freedom to publish uncompromising books solely because of their quality, originality, beauty, and rarity, far beyond the pursuit of maximum sales and far beyond the fast-moving mainstream of contemporary fantasy.
Avox books are special books. On the one hand, they preserve forgotten milestones of literary history: books whose authors opened new paths and made history, or whose intensity, language, and truthfulness still have the power to move us deeply today. We rescue such works from oblivion and, with great care and attention to detail, restore them to an attractive and readable form for modern readers, often for the first time in German. In this way, we preserve the best of the past for the present and keep these precious treasures alive for generations to come.
On the other hand, we publish contemporary literature only when it genuinely touches and moves us and when it is capable of offering orientation, inner values, and help for life. Avox books seek to preserve or reawaken what is best within us. In our understanding, literature speaks across generations and can be written for adults and children alike, just as fairy tales have shown us for thousands of years. Valuable books address the innocent, intuitively knowing child within us, whose creativity and openness allow us to grow in integrity, wholeness, and meaning. Avox books are consciously free of content that glorifies violence, spreads fear, or manipulates the reader. They are addressed to the whole human being.
avox ad fontes
Our culture of increasing virtualisation and ever faster access to information often comes at the cost of thoroughness, truthfulness, depth, and verifiability. The accelerating cycles of update and forgetting in digital media tend to produce an ahistorical world of permanent revision and permanent loss of memory. A media culture that treats knowledge less as a foundation of identity and truth and more as an instrument for shaping opinion creates the opposite of what human beings have long regarded as essential: a precise knowledge of their own history and the ability to understand themselves through it.
With avox ad fontes, we consciously work against this loss of depth. We return to sources, contexts, and historical substance. We seek books and texts that help readers rediscover continuity, memory, and orientation in a fragmented age.