The Anguished and the Enchanted
"The Little Prince," Revisited
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Author(s)
Bowker, M.H.
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EnglishAbstract
"In 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."
Keywords
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, hatred of development, literary criticism, Little Prince, psychoanalysis, regressionISBN
9781953035554Publisher
punctum booksPublisher website
http://punctumbooks.comPublication date and place
Brooklyn, NY, 2021Classification
Child & developmental psychology
Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage)
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy