Oedipus on the road
a novel
by Henry Bauchau
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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
July 7, 1997, Arcade Publishing
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Oedipus on the road: a novel
1994, Arcade, Distributed by Little, Brown
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Originally published under the title: Œdipe sur la route.
First published in English in Great Britain by Quartet Books, Ltd.
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