Metamorphica
Mason, Zachary, 1974-2018
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Just as the Roman poet reinvigorated the Greek Classical legends 700 years after Homer, so Mason now gives us a radical and exciting renovation of those myths, 2000 years after Ovid. It retells the great stories of Narcissus, Orpheus, Persephone, Icarus, Midas, Medea and Actaeon, and strings them together like the stars in constellations - with even Ovid himself entering the narrative. It's as though the ancient mythologies had been rewritten by Borges or Calvino - or artificial intelligence - and brought glimmering back into our world. 'Metamorphica' re-engages with the elemental power of the ancient shape-changing gods by keeping their essences while rewriting their stories. It is this extraordinary narrative approach that is so thrilling; we watch as the author extracts more and more out of the original legend - adding infinite perspectives to narratives we thought we knew.
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Main title:
Metamorphica / Zachary Mason.
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Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2018.
Collation:
xi, 282 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780224097970 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Local class:
F
Language:
English
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BRN:
2679646