The Oedipus complex in fiction

This study aims to know The Bookseller’s Notebooks intersects with Hunchback of Notre Dame and Oedipus Rex. We analyze the novelist’s proficiency at expressing contemporary human issues innovatively artistically, focusing on emotional struggle between parents children. In particular, sheds light social struggles suffered by a marginalized, despised, rejected societal group, namely illegitimate children (foundlings). study’s findings suggest that more comparative studies intertextuality non-local works literature should be attempted. way, literary criticism may enhance our understanding other’s cultures facilitate acceptance peaceful coexistence.