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Dlaczego Owidiusz? Postmodernistyczne biografie alternatywne wielkiego poety
WHY OVID? POSTMODERN ALTERNATIVE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GREAT POET

Author(s): Anna Gawarecka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: exile of Ovid; historical metafiction; intertextuality; actualization of ancient tradition; counterfactual fiction

Summary/Abstract: Article analyses a literary portrait of Publius Ovidius Naso in the novels Naso the Poet (1969) by Jacek Bocheński, An Inexplicable Story or the Narrative of Questus Firmus Siculus by Josef Škvorecky (1998) and The Last World. A Novel with an Ovidian Repertory by Christoph Ransmayr (1988).

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 119-133
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English
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