Christoph Ransmayr
Austrian author known for his visionary, deeply researched historical fiction. The Last World and The Terrors of Ice and Darkness blend Ovidian myth, Antarctic exploration, and the modern world with haunting effect.
Works
- The Last WorldPoet's journey through underworld searching for exiled literature
- The Terrors of Ice and DarknessTwo expeditions to Arctic poles encounter supernatural terrors
- The Dog KingDog-king rules harsh frontier in Ransmayr's speculative narrative
- Atlas of an Anxious ManAnxious man catalogs his fears and memories in geographic form
- Cox or The Course of TimeTime keeper's philosophical meditation on mortality and change