An Imaginary Life (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: unclipped dj.,
What happens when the most celebrated poet of the Roman world is stripped of everything — his language, his society, and his identity? An Imaginary Life by David Malouf reimagines the final years of Ovid, exiled by Emperor Augustus to a barbaric outpost on the Black Sea, where he encounters a feral child raised by wolves and must confront the very nature of what it means to be human. Set against the vast, indifferent landscape of the ancient world's frontier, this luminous novel chronicles the transformative bond between the refined, word-obsessed poet and the wordless, wild boy — a relationship that irrevocably alters both their destinies. Malouf, one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, constructs a meditation on language, civilisation, and the soul's capacity for renewal with extraordinary economy and grace. Written in Ovid's first-person voice, the prose is spare yet deeply lyrical, reflecting a mind gradually unlearning the very constructs that once defined it. An Imaginary Life stands as a profound philosophical novel, asking whether true freedom — from culture, from ego, from fear — is ever truly within our grasp, and leaving the reader to wonder long after the final page is turned.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, George Braziller
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: unclipped dj.,
What happens when the most celebrated poet of the Roman world is stripped of everything — his language, his society, and his identity? An Imaginary Life by David Malouf reimagines the final years of Ovid, exiled by Emperor Augustus to a barbaric outpost on the Black Sea, where he encounters a feral child raised by wolves and must confront the very nature of what it means to be human. Set against the vast, indifferent landscape of the ancient world's frontier, this luminous novel chronicles the transformative bond between the refined, word-obsessed poet and the wordless, wild boy — a relationship that irrevocably alters both their destinies. Malouf, one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, constructs a meditation on language, civilisation, and the soul's capacity for renewal with extraordinary economy and grace. Written in Ovid's first-person voice, the prose is spare yet deeply lyrical, reflecting a mind gradually unlearning the very constructs that once defined it. An Imaginary Life stands as a profound philosophical novel, asking whether true freedom — from culture, from ego, from fear — is ever truly within our grasp, and leaving the reader to wonder long after the final page is turned.