- Hardcover: 248 pages
- Publisher: Arcade Publishing (July 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1559703822
- ISBN-13: 978-1559703826
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.8 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 503 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,936,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
Book Description
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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4.0 out of 5 stars
Very interesting version of a missing part of Oedipus story,
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This review is from: Oedipus on the Road (Hardcover)
Even thoug the translating in Portuguese wasn`t okay, the novel Oedipus on the road has many qualities, like the deep questions in which it goes. Bauchau deals very well with the psychological aspects of characters well known like Oedipus and Antigone, and manage to create other ones like Clio, a very strong hero.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Very interesting version of a missing part of Oedipus story,
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This review is from: Oedipus on the Road (Hardcover)
Even thoug the translating in Portuguese wasn`t okay, the novel Oedipus on the road has many qualities, like the deep questions in which it goes. Bauchau deals very well with the psychological aspects of characters well known like Oedipus and Antigone, and manage to create other ones like Clio, a very strong hero.
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