Metamorphica av Zachary Mason

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<p>In the tradition of Zachary Mason¿s bestselling first novel, <i>The Lost Books of the Odyssey</i> ¿ where he recast episodes from Homer¿s masterpiece ¿ <i>Metamorphica </i>now reimagines Ovid¿s epic poem of endless transformation, <i>Metamorphoses</i>. 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, 2,000 years after Ovid.<br><br>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. <i>Metamorphica</i> 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 t