9 rows · Out of this story Christoph Ransmayr has fashioned an astonishing novel about a journey of /5(4). Not for the squeamish, not for children, The Last World by Christoph Ransmayer (translation by John Woods) is a Grimm fairy tale unrelenting in its horror. I could only read it in spurts, and it left me feeling sullied, in need of a shower and Listerine. It is a novel redolent /5. Out of this story Christoph Ransmayr has fashioned an astonishing novel about a journey of adventure that has become Europe’s most recent critical and best-selling literary sensation. The Last World is the story of a quest. As Cotta, following a trail of clues Ovid has left behind, searches for the exiled poet and his lost work, he discovers in the rust-corroded town of Tomi an ominous scene suffused with and .
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Tomi becomes a microcosm for a world of exile, loneliness, fugacity, and ultimately renewal. The book is demanding, but the end, which is redemptive and transformative without being mawkish, brings the strands of the novel together extremely skillfully. One is left wanting to reread "The Last World" immediately to savor its themes more fully. Christoph Ransmayr. Born in Wels, Upper Austria, Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From to he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. He worked there as cultural editor for the newspaper Extrablatt from to , also publishing articles and essays in GEO, TransAtlantik and Merian. Not for the squeamish, not for children, The Last World by Christoph Ransmayer (translation by John Woods) is a Grimm fairy tale unrelenting in its horror. I could only read it in spurts, and it left me feeling sullied, in need of a shower and Listerine. It is a novel redolent of putrefaction and iridescent with flies on carrion.
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