Sumque argumenti conditor ipse mei (Tr. 5.1.10): la escritura como acto fundador de trascendencia en las Tristia de Ovidio

Abstract

One of the recurrent motifs of Ovid’s exile poetry is a fractured timeline separating the before and the after of the exile’s experience. Yet, this division implies another frequent image, that of Naso’s death after entering this new and destructurating reality. This paper examines, from the mise en scène of these elements in the Tristia, the formulation of an implicit poetic reflection. In reality, the oppositions which the exile brings about allow to focus on the motif of immortality granted by the poetic text, assumed as a real foundation act.