“Soaring Towards the Sun”: The Icarus Complex in Daphne Du Maurier’s The Flight of the Falcon
Bird-men, compelled fatefully to soar sun-ward, haunt Daphne Du Maurier’s novels and short stories. Her incessant re-working of the myth of Icarus finds its climax in her later novel, The Flight of the Falcon (1965), in which Aldo Donati dons Daedalus-like wings, then, “like Icarus, […] fl[ies] too...
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Presses universitaires de Rennes
2021-11-01
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