TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bowker, M.H.
AB  - "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."
DO  - 10.21983/P3.0311.1.00
KW  - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, hatred of development, literary criticism, Little Prince, psychoanalysis, regression
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/9c1223d1-e335-40f0-8d76-a09c51d3903b/0311.1.00.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48762
PB  - punctum books
PP  - Brooklyn, NY
PY  - 2021
SN  - 9781953035554
TI  - The Anguished and the Enchanted : "The Little Prince," Revisited
ER  - 
