About “Die letzte Welt”

The Last World is a 1988 novel by Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr. The story follows a man named Cotta, who travels to a place called Tomi to search for the poet Naso, who lived in political exile. Cotta hears rumors that Naso has died. In Tomi, he meets characters from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The novel was published in English in 1990, translated by John E. Woods. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

Book details

Published
1988