Oedipus on the road
a novel
1st U.S. ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Glasheen, Anne-Marie, 1945- - Contributor
Publication
1994 - Arcade, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL709012M
- ISBN-101559703822
- OCLC Control Number37278728
- OCLC Control Numberisbn_9781559703826
- Library of Congress Control Number97072130
and 2 more
- Goodreads791297
- LibraryThing46308
Classifications
- DDC843/.914
- LCCPQ2603.A782 O4413 1994b
Description
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.
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- Oedipus on the road: a novel
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