Oedipus On the Road

By Henry Bauchau

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559703822
• ISBN13: 9781559703826
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Very interesting version of a missing part of Oedipus story

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.