Titre : | Theseus and Oedipe |
Auteurs : | André Gide, Auteur |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | London : Hesperus, 2002 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-84391-027-5 |
Format : | 101 p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | 843.9 (Fiction de langue française - XXè siècle) |
Mots-clés: | roman |
Résumé : |
Œdipus is mercifully remote from those modern adaptations in which the text lumbers, for good or ill, in the tracks of Sophocles until eventually the admired actor of the day can be led, bleeding and ululant, from the stage. In Gide's play human dignity puts the horrors in their place; and for the spectator its appeal is rather to the intelligence than to any variety of primitive astonishment. It is basically a stringent intellectual debate; as in the masterpieces of Poussin (a painter whom Gide particularly admired) the realities of physical violence are subordinated to the grand, overmastering instincts of order and design.
Theseus was the last of Gide's works, but it was one that had been long projected. For more than thirty years the idea had possessed him, from time to time, of committing to paper a new manipulation of this ancient legend. Other images of Theseus reverberate, as is natural, within this new version. The Theseus of Plutarch is here, even down to the feathery branches of asparagus among which the beardless hero carried out the first of his summary but appreciative sexual experiments. The Theseus of Racine is here, forever aghast at the murderous favors accorded to him by the gods. But Gide's Theseus is a different, more constructive character. He discourses to us in the cloudless evening of his life, with the motiveless lechery of his early manhood quite laid aside, and the more disreputable episodes (so carefully husbanded by Plutarch) discounted as fables. |
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