OEDIPUS

OEDIPUS takes one of Western civilization's most enduring myths and reconstitutes it for a contemporary literary consciousness — stripping away the theatrical apparatus of ancient drama and forcing the story into collision with modern questions of identity, fate, and self-knowledge.

The work engages with the philosophical dimensions of the Oedipal condition: the paradox of seeking truth when the truth is the seeker; the relationship between knowledge and catastrophe; the nature of self-deception in the face of what one already knows and refuses to acknowledge.

Written in Alicia Cao's distinctive voice — at once intellectually rigorous and lyrically precise — the work refuses easy genre categorization, moving between literary fiction, philosophical meditation, and mythological revision to produce something genuinely new from the oldest of stories.

OEDIPUS is for readers who take seriously the work of literature as a mode of thinking — as a way of approaching questions that philosophy alone cannot reach and that empirical inquiry leaves wholly untouched.