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Doctorow's Billy Bathgate and Sophocles's Oedipus Rex.(E.L. Doctorow)(Critical essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20060322
Author:Banker, Paul V.

 
    He that came seeing, blind shall he go; Rich now, then a beggar; 
    stick in hand groping his way To a land of exile; brother as it 
    shall be shown, And father at once, to the children he cherishes; 
    son, And husband, to the woman who bore him; father-killer, And 
    father-supplanter. Go in, and think on this [...]. (Sophocles, King 
    Oedipus) (1) 

Although Minako Baba writes that Billy Bathgate is "rendered in a parodic style full of mythic and literary motifs," (2) noting Joseph Campbell's archetypal "hero's journey" and citing parallels to well-known American ...

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