Thesis is based on comparison of ancient work Metamorphoses with postmodern novel The Last World. The main purpose of my work was to explore fundamental differences and similarities in the stories which Christoph Ransmayr took over Ovid. Thesis is divided into three parts. The first part is consisted of Ovid' life, description of antiquity, description of Metamorphoses and a brief description of the stories which also occurs in Ransmayr's The Last World. This part is mainly based on the study of Metamorphoses. In the second part I described Ransmayr's life, which is written briefly, because there are not a lof of data of his private life. Futher I described the novel The Last World and postmodernism, which is the period when the novel was written. This part is mainly based on the study of the novel The Last World. In the third, the last part I used empirical analysis, which was used to find differences and similarities between these them. My conclusion is that Ransmayr retains all persons and their transromations. He also introduce Ovid as "invisible" character. Ransmayr's main purpose was to write Ovid's stories in prose and his transformations make possible in today's modern world.
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