num_pages: 248
description: Set in the seventh century BC, I, ANTIGONE purports to be Antigone’s biography of her father, Oedipus, as she attempts to set the record straight on his life and death and restore his reputation. With this astonishing version of Oedipus' famous demise, Gébler dismantles the polarisation and absolutism of our time. By tracing the histories of Oedipus and his parents Laius and Jocasta, as well as the peripheral characters of the plays who had a central role in him fulfilling his destiny, Antigone’s ‘biography’ causes us to re-evaluate the extent to which any of us can be entirely blamed for the actions by which we will be defined. The book ultimately meditates on the illusion of free will, and the warning that context is everything, I, ANTIGONE will be a major contribution to the reclaimed classics.
language: English
title: I, Antigone
publisher: New Island Books