Death, like sex, was a common theme in Ovid's work. Two authors, here, offer their very different meditations on the metamorphosis of death. Gabriel Josipovici's gentle and moving meditation on the death of his mother is equally personal. It is a story which suggests to him many truths about love, imagination, death and transformation. Will any modern author's work, I wonder, last as long.
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