Metamorphica
By: Zachary Mason
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780374208646
Subjects: Adaptations
Description: In the tradition of his bestselling debut novel The Lost Books of the Odyssey , Zachary Mason's Metamorphica transforms Ovid's epic poem of endless transformation. It reimagines the stories of Narcissus, Pygmalion and Galatea, Midas and Atalanta, and strings them together like the stars in constellations--even Ovid becomes a story. It's as though the ancient mythologies had been rewritten by Borges or Calvino; Metamorphica is an archipelago in which to linger for a while; it reflects a little light from the morning of the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282).