Dear flist: help a gal with an obscure query?

[mousme]

Hi flist,

In my last year of university, I read a short story in an intro to Canadian Lit. class. It was, if memory serves, a sort of modern take on the story of Oedipus, featuring Oedipus as a young child (maybe pre-adolescent?) and his siblings, who called him 'Pus.

Most of my last year of university is a bit of a foggy haze to me. I can't remember for the life of me who the author was (I seem to recall it being a woman), nor even what the story was actually about, other than involving some sort of childhood antics. I also seem to recall that this author had written more than one book/story about these characters.

Does this ring any bells? Can. Lit. fans, do you recognize this? I realize that I'm not being of much help here, but this has been bugging me for years...

Comments

[curtana.livejournal.com]

It could be Sheila Watson, "Brother Oedipus" - it seems she's got another story called "Antigone". Found a Select bibliography here, and here'sa bit from a book that talks about her work, blah blah Barthes, blah blah Saussure, etc. but that might be interesting if one likes that sort of thing ;)

PS - I am not a big Can Lit fan, but just a very stubborn Googler :)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that's it! Thank you! My Google Fu has ever been weak. :P


Also, this made me laugh very, very hard: blah blah Barthes, blah blah Saussure, etc. I suspect it's only funny if you've studied literature at any point in your life. :D