Oedipus on the road
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Henry Bauchau ; translated from the French by Anne-Marie Glasheen.
Contributors: Glasheen, Anne-Marie, 1945-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Arcade; Distributed by Little, Brown
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Oedipus (Greek mythology) -- Fiction.
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.
Notes: Originally published under the title: Œdipe sur la route.
First published in English in Great Britain by Quartet Books, Ltd.