VINTAGE BOOKS are published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and Random House, Inc. Copyright, 1950, by ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in New York by Random House, Inc., and in Toronto, Canada, by Random House of Canada, Limited. Reprinted by arrangement with ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. First published in French as OEDIPE, copyright by Librairie Gallimard, 1931; and as THÉSÉE, copyright by Librairie Galli- mard, 1946. THÉSÉE was originally published in French in New York by Éditions Schiffrin in 1946 and subsequently in Paris by Librairie Gallimard in 1947. In English it was published first in an earlier version of this translation in HORIZON, London, in 1946 and later in the United States in a limited illustrated edition by New Directions in 1949. OEDIPE was first translated for the edition published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1950. Manufactured in the United States of America -iv- |