The Last World: A Novel With an Ovidian Repertory
by By Ransmayr, Christoph
Category: Fiction , Literary

A man goes in search of the Roman poet Ovid, banished to the end of the world. He finds that Ovid's personality and stories have undergone a sea-change, and have fragmented themselves into lots of clues - people, bizarre events, odd stretches of landscape, and a story emerges.