Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire by René Girard

Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire

René Girard

131 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction classics literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the blame for a crisis afflicting Thebes? For Ren Girard, the mythic accusations of patricide and incest are symptomatic of a plague-stricke...

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