Se perdre afin de se retrouver : l'importance du passage entre l’absence et la présence dans Œdipe sur la route de Henry Bauchau

Ślusarska, Alicja

Se perdre afin de se retrouver : l'importance du passage entre l’absence et la présence dans Œdipe sur la route de Henry Bauchau

dc.contributor.author	Ślusarska, Alicja
dc.date.accessioned	2022-06-13T12:56:15Z
dc.date.available	2022-06-13T12:56:15Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.description.abstract	Retracing in his novel the labyrinthine journey that leads Oedipus from the place of his abomination (Thebes) to the city of his future glory (Colonus), Henry Bauchau fills the emptiness between Sophocles’s Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. Bauchau’s hero, a powerful king, loses everything and stabs his eyes out when the cruel truth about his real identity is revealed. Blind, homeless, devoid of meaning of life, Oedipus leaves on a journey to pass away anywhere. However, his way to death turns out to be, thanks to benevolent presence of others and art’s liberating power, the road to personal elucidation. The story of Bauchau’s Oedipus, who finally recognizes himself as a truly human, is based therefore on the passage between absence and presence, between darkness and lucidity, on the union of contradictions which symbolize the complexity of human nature. This paper attempts to analyse different representations of absence in Bauchau’s novel. Afterwards, the article focuses on the ways which facilitate Oedipus’s road leading from depersonalization to rediscovery of his own identity.	en
dc.identifier.citation	"Quêtes littéraires" 2012, nº 2, s. 116-123	pl
dc.identifier.doi	10.31743/ql.4632
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/3199
dc.language.iso	fr	pl
dc.publisher	Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset	pl
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Belgian novel	pl
dc.subject	passage	pl
dc.subject	depersonalization	pl
dc.subject	lucidity	pl
dc.title	Se perdre afin de se retrouver : l'importance du passage entre l’absence et la présence dans Œdipe sur la route de Henry Bauchau	fr
dc.title.alternative	Getting lost to find oneself – significance of the passage between absence and presence in Bauchau’s novel Oedipus on the road	en
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	pl