![]() ![]() ![]() Ransmayr's narrator becomes fascinated with Josef Mazzini, a missing author who enjoys ``playing a game with reality'' in his writing: after he has written an adventure story, he does historical research to see whether it has a precedent, convinced that whatever he fantasizes about must have happened in the past. Where Last World took the form of a search for Ovid out into the hinterlands of classical civilization, Terrors follows a narrator to the North Pole, the last unconquered territory of 20th-century exploration. As in The Last World, Ransmayr here depicts a journey to the edge of the known globe. Ransmayr's first novel, originally published in 1984 in Germany, is released now in the US after his second novel and American debut, The Last World (1990). ![]()
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