“The Heroic Misadventures of Balthasar Kober” is at the same time a picaresque novel, a story of extraordinary adventures, a story of love and a philosophical allegorical story, the action of which takes place in the last years of the 16th century, seething with religious strife, illuminated by the glow of the fires of the Inquisition. A young man endowed with supernatural powers makes an esoteric journey through the labyrinths of the spirit.