A Roman stranger comes to the town of Tomi on the coast of the Black Sea in search of the poet Ovid, who was exiled there by the runaway bureaucracy of an oppressive Roman Empire. What he finds instead is fantasy turned reality, bizarreness, and mysteries. Ransmayr takes parts of Ovid’s life story and elements of his most famous work, the Metamorphoses, and crafts them into something new: he adapts the tales, the protagonists and really the whole environment to fit a new narrative. When […]