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An award-winning Belgian author writes a missing chapter for Sophocles's Oedipus, as the blinded Oedipus endures numerous rites of passage that lead him to spiritual and physical realization. First serial, Grand Street.
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Okay, you know the drill: In Sophocles's Oedipus the King, Oedipus unwittingly kills his father, marries his mother, then stabs his eyes out years later when the truth of his actions is revealed. Years later, the blind and beggared king washes up on the outskirts of Athens, where Sophocles resumes the tale in Oedipus at Colonus. But what happened in between? Although the early Greeks never satisfactorily answered that question, Belgian writer Henry Bauchau does in his daring novel Oedipus on the Road. In Bauchau's version, Oedipus's life on the road teaches him a new humility and appreciation for the kindness of strangers. Through the love of his daughter, Antigone, and the people he meets along the road, he learns to forgive himself. By turning his back on the power he once had as king of Thebes and instead embracing the compassion he learns along his journey, Oedipus becomes noble indeed.
Oedipus on the Road is a wise and ambitious novel--not surprising, considering its author is an 84-year-old psychoanalyst. Bauchau brings many years of experience to this story of disgrace and redemption, making this latest installment in the Oedipus legend both relevant to modern times and universal to all times and places--just as his predecessor, Sophocles, did more than 2,000 years ago.
About the Author
Henry Bauchau is a writer, poet, and psychoanalyst who was born in 1913 in Belgium, where he lives today with his wife. He has spent much of his life in Paris, where he was a friend of Camus and Gide, and later of Lacan and Derrida. Bauchau’s novels and poetry have won several major French and Belgian literary prizes, and he was elected to the Belgian Royal Academy in 1990.
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- PublisherArcade Publishing
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1559703822
- ISBN 13 9781559703826
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages248
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