Bowker, M.H.2024-05-282024-05-282021-05-2797819530355549781953035561229ac088-257d-48f3-9fdf-033fade595b7https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0311.1.00https://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/665Publication status: ACTIVEIn 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.JMCYFHFIC010000PSY004000Antoine de Saint-Exupéryhatred of developmentliterary criticismLittle Princepsychoanalysisregressionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f332024-05-28