Oedipus on the Road, Henry Bauchau

Oedipus, who—a plaything of the gods—killed his father and married his mother, leaves Thebes, blind and burdened by the weight of his guilt. With his daughter Antigone, he embarks on a long wandering that will lead him to Colonus, the place of his "disappearance"... and of his newfound insight.

For this book is an inner journey in which a man confronts the darkness within him until he achieves self-knowledge.

In this quest, Henry Bauchau successively evokes song, dance, dream, and delirium as means of liberation for his hero... And it is through the sculpture, on the side of a cliff, of a gigantic wave, a symbol of trials already overcome or yet to be faced, that this delirium finds its most complete and visionary expression.

Oedipus on the Road, an adventure novel, an initiatory novel, is above all a magnificent exploration of the individual and their destiny.