The Oedipus Complex in Fiction

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2023

Abstract

This study aims to know how The Bookseller's Notebooks intersects with The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Oedipus Rex. We analyze the novelist's proficiency at expressing contemporary human issues innovatively and artistically, focusing on the emotional struggle between parents and children. In particular, the study sheds light on the emotional and social struggles suffered by a marginalized, despised, and rejected societal group, namely illegitimate children (foundlings), examining the unhealthy social relationship between fathers and children in the light of the intertextuality technique regarding the theme, characters, and events between Jalal Barjas's The Bookseller's Notebooks and Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The study's findings suggest that more comparative studies of intertextuality between non-local works of Arabic fiction are positive indications of trends that meet human needs of all eras.

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