The Anguished and the Enchanted: "The Little Prince," Revisited

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dc.contributor.authorBowker, M.H.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-28T10:01:49Z
dc.date.available2024-05-28T10:01:49Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-27
dc.date.updated2024-05-28T10:01:49Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractIn The Anguished and the Enchanted, M.H. Bowker offers a lengthy critical essay and richly annotated English translation of a lost Finnish translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. Featuring a substantial Translator’s Preface, M.H. Bowker develops a psychoanalytic lens through which to regard Saint-Exupéry’s classic work, offering a more nuanced and less "fable-esque" text than any translation and interpretation to date. On Bowker’s reading, dark and primitive unconscious forces — including neglect and abuse at home, the hatred of maturation and development, the projection of feelings of worthlessness onto others, the creation of an absurd and futile world, and more — infest the story, not unlike the Baobab trees dreaded by the little prince. Those already familiar with The Little Prince will find in The Anguished and the Enchanted a new way of regarding what has perhaps become a favorite or even a beloved book. Those unfamiliar with the original work will discover a sometimes tragic, sometimes sympathetic, sometimes harrowing account of the lengths to which persons will go in their struggle to find — or to escape from — meaningful places for themselves in the world of adults.
dc.description.versionVoR
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0311.1.00
dc.identifier.isbn9781953035554
dc.identifier.isbn9781953035561
dc.identifier.other229ac088-257d-48f3-9fdf-033fade595b7
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/665
dc.languageENG
dc.languageFIN
dc.publisherpunctum books
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectJMC
dc.subjectYFH
dc.subjectFIC010000
dc.subjectPSY004000
dc.subjectAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
dc.subjecthatred of development
dc.subjectliterary criticism
dc.subjectLittle Prince
dc.subjectpsychoanalysis
dc.subjectregression
dc.titleThe Anguished and the Enchanted: "The Little Prince," Revisited
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33
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