![]() He wrote many pieces of literature that were rather controversial for his time and which resulted in his exile. ‘An Imaginary Life’ tells the story of the infamous Roman poet Ovid, who was exiled by Emperor Augustus from the city of Rome to the small island of Tomis, because of his disregard and irreverence to the crown. Genre - Historical and Biographical Fiction The struggle of Ovid to try and control and power over nature and then finally give in and come into an intimate contact with the environment is presented in the form of a beautiful journey in the book. ![]() ![]() The book, although fiction provides such a vivid and detailed account of things that it is impossible to get out of the story at times. The reasons behind his exile are uncertain but most critics claim that it was because of Ovid’s rather controversial choice of literary works. The novella gives an account of the life of the famous and controversial Roman poet Ovid, who was exiled from Rome by emperor Augustus. “What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.”ĭavid Malouf’s ‘An Imaginary Life’ is a novella first published in 1978. ![]()
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