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Christoph Ransmayr’s award-winning metaliterary novel The Last World (1991) presents readers with a Tomis where history and fantasy, reality and poetry, merge into a unique and unusual amalgam. Ransmayr’s Tomis, as this chapter argues, is a literary utopia, a non-place, whose inhabitants are literary personae from Ovid’s Metamorphoses brought to life only to re-enact their literary fate.This chapter investigates how Ransmayr deals with the major theme of Ovid’s absence, as Ovid is absent both from Rome and from the interpretation of his own work (and even from his very exile). Such conflict and the mutual exclusivity between the poet’s textual presence and bodily absence lie at the heart of this investigation into Ovid’s poetic corpus and its reception.
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