Kuno MlatjeFictional Author
The author of the novel 'Odysseus of Ithaca'.
Homer Maria OdysseusProtagonist
The hero of the novel who bites a professor's ear to gain notoriety, then founds the 'Quest for the Fleece of the Spirit' to locate the lost works of unrecognized first-order geniuses.
Homer M. OdysseusOdysseus of Ithaca
Professor Evelyn G. HutchinsonVictim/Catalyst
A member of the Science Council of the Rockefeller Foundation whose car is burned and ear is bitten by Odysseus after ignoring Odysseus's brochure.
Prof. E. G. Hutchinson
The ForgerExplorer and Fraudster
An unrecognized author who infiltrates the expedition and forges a 17th-century manuscript on the parageometric structure of Being to get his own concepts published.
Mameluke Kardyoch
Hans ZokkerCorrupt Explorer
An explorer for the Quest who discovers valuable documents in Montenegro, auctions them off secretly, and absconds to Chile with the money.
Miral Essos of BoeotiaHistorical Genius
A 15th-century genius whose works included a system of logic based on frog spinal columns, trivalent logic, and early genetic theories.
Bauber the CatalonianHistorical Genius
An author burned alive at the stake for formulating a formal-logical proof that a rational theodicy is impossible.
Eminent mathematicianExpert Consultant
One of the two eminent mathematicians who analyzes the cryptic Florentine manuscript and realizes it proposes an entirely different foundation of mathematics.
The NarratorLiterary Critic
The first-person voice reviewing and recommending Kuno Mlatje's book.
The Reviewer