by Sophocle · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070302925
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«Œdipe roi» is the Folio Policier volume that brings together Didier Lamaison's novel and Sophocles' tragedy, published by Gallimard (285 pages, in French).
The volume brings together Didier Lamaison's crime novel, inspired by Sophocles' tragedy, with a new translation of the classic work. Oedipus, become king of a city tormented by fear and division, begins an investigation that brings him closer to a terrible truth about his past.
The edition belongs to the Folio Policier collection; Lamaison's novel was originally published in Série Noire. Sophocles' tragedy is the first of the Theban cycle and the volume includes a glossary.
Suitable for literature students and for readers who want to see the myth of Oedipus in a crime novel key.
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens, which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in 30 competitions, won 24, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won 13 competitions and was sometimes beaten by Sophocles; Euripides won four.
