"These points, however, do not detract significantly from the overall achievement of the book, which succeeds in opening a coherent and stimulating field of inquiry and in providing a solid foundation for future research on the modern afterlives of Apuleius’ Golden Ass. The Human Tragicomedy does not merely document the modern and contemporary reception of the Metamorphoses but also offers a comprehensive interpretation: Apuleius continues to speak to us as the author of a work in which laughter and the sacred, the comic and the tragic, are inextricably intertwined, offering an image of the human condition that the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have recognized as their own."
Donato Fasolini in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2026.01.07

Mateusz Stróżyński is Associate Professor in the Institute of Classical Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He is the co-editor, with J.Fiećko, of Adam Mickiewicz, Metaphysical Poems (Brill, 2023) and the author of Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World: Faces of Being and Mirrors of Intellect (Cambridge University Press, 2024). He is also founding editor of the online journal Antigone.
Contributors are Nicholas Banner, Jakub Handszu, Douglas Hedley, Warren S. Smith, Mateusz Stróżyński, Łukasz Berger, Andrea Musio.