Oedipus UnboundDid Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the blame for a crisis afflicting Thebes? For Ren Girard, the mythic accusations of patricide and incest are symptomatic of a plague stricken community's hunt for a culprit to punish, and Girard succeeds in making us see an age old myth in a wholly new light. The hard to find writings assembled here include three major early essays, never before