Word: oedipus
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...Later, inside the house, Delight picks up a book he is reading for school, The Gods Are Not to Blame by Nigerian playwright Ola Rotimi, which transplants Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to Africa. He talks about his school and having to go to mass every day. He pronounces Catholic Cad-lick in his wonderful, treacle-thick Ghanaian English. There is a small table in the corner with a stove sitting on it. Pots and pans stack up under chairs that line the walls and on the shelves of a bureau that also holds a tiny color television. There is a small...
...impulses. He commits a murder to satisfy her besmirched honor; he sees his crime as an act of chivalric protectiveness that will endear him to lovely Lady M., and might prove to her that he's not a troubled child but a heroic man. Now we're tiptoeing toward Oedipus Rex: Will Hannibal kill a man in order to have sex with his aunt...
Zander described the piece as having “the power of Greek tragedy, the apocalyptic grandeur of ‘Oedipus Rex.’” To me, however, the beginning and end of the one-movement piece was more reminiscent of Dostoyevsky than Sophocles, with the restlessness of the low strings and the psychological irritation present throughout. The middle of the overture, however, had a more classically veiled sound...
This quite possibly explains why Harvard men appear to want—no, expect—a woman who will praise them like their mothers did. I am not claiming that Harvard men have an Oedipus complex. I am simply saying that, since they think highly of themselves, they expect others to think highly of them as well. They think they deserve the best...
...Japan. More than previous Murakami novels, Kafka embraces nearly the entire Western canon, with learned digressions on Beethoven, Schubert, Chekhov, T.S. Eliot and a pantheon of ancient Greeks. It's an education in a box, much like the small but mysteriously well-stocked Takamatsu library where Murakami's young Oedipus finds a job as live-in caretaker. He is no ordinary 15-year-old. As well-read as a professor and alienated as Holden Caulfield (Murakami was translating J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as he wrote the novel), the boy calls himself Kafka Tamura, though you never learn...