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Oedipus on the road
- Title
- Oedipus on the road / a novel by Henry Bauchau ; translated from the French by Anne-Marie Glasheen.
- Author
- Bauchau, Henry.
- Publication
- New York : Arcade : Distributed by Little, Brown, [1994], ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ2603.A782 O4413 1994g | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Glasheen, Anne-Marie, 1945-
- Description
- 240 pages : geneological table; 22 cm
- Summary
- Oedipus on the Road is a rendering of the journey that leads Oedipus from Thebes to Colonus - and from a world of exile to one of legend. This is the chapter that Sophocles never wrote, the redemptive passage of the fallen, blinded king to his final - this time glorious - encounter with destiny.
- Bauchau finds Oedipus stranded outside the walls of his former palace, eye sockets and soul still bleeding, and leads him - along with his daughter Antigone and the seductive shepherd-bandit Clius, whose loyalty to the pair probably has less to do with his allegiance to Oedipus than his intentions toward his daughter - through a geographical and spiritual landscape littered with the physical, artistic, and mental rites of passage that separate Oedipus from immortality.
- Uniform Title
- Œdipe sur la route. English
- Alternative Title
- Œdipe sur la route.
- Subjects
- Note
- First published in Great Britain by Quartet Books, Ltd.
- ISBN
- 1559703822
- LCCN
- 97072130
- OCLC
- ocm37278728
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries