Madeleine is the story of a great writer s marriage, a deeply disturbing account of Andre Gide s feelings towards his beloved and long-suffering wife. It was a relationship which Gide exalted he termed it the central drama of his existence yet deliberately shrouded in mystery. This was no ordinary marriage. Madeleine Rondeaux, two years older than her cousin Andre Gide, became his wife after Gide s first visit to Algeria. In his Journal, Gide refers to her as Emmanuele or as Em. Only in this book, published a few months after his death, does Gide call her by her real name and painfully reveal...
Madeleine is the story of a great writer s marriage, a deeply disturbing account of Andre Gide s feelings towards his beloved and long-suffering wife....
"Strait is the Gate," first published in 1909 in France as "La Porte etroite," is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism. --- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in between the two World Wars. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual...
"Strait is the Gate," first published in 1909 in France as "La Porte etroite," is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of t...
The Private Memoirs, first published in 1824, is an early psychological novel, in which the phenomena of the split personality and the obsessed character are described with extraordinary insight. Set in the gloomy world of 18th-century Scottish Calvinism, the novel is a story of moral fanaticism, of a mind darkened by and overpowering conviction of its own righteousness. The story concerns two brothers: one murders the other and is in turn destroyed - or destroys himself. It is a book, Andre Gide wrote, "fitted to arouse passionate interest both in those who are attracted by...
The Private Memoirs, first published in 1824, is an early psychological novel, in which the phenomena of the split personality and the obs...
Andre Gide's lifelong fascination with the conventions of society led naturally to a strong interest in France's judicial system. At the age of sixty Gide published Judge Not, a collection of writings detailing his experiences with the law as well as his thoughts on truth, justice, and judgment. Gide writes about his experience as a juror in several trials, including that of an arsonist, and he analyzes two famous crimes of his day: Marcel Redureau, a docile fifteen-year-old vineyard laborer who violently murdered his employer's family, and the respected Monnier family's confinement...
Andre Gide's lifelong fascination with the conventions of society led naturally to a strong interest in France's judicial system. At the age of sixty ...
Most of Andre Gide's richly-varied literary output has long been available to American readers. Only one aspect of his protean career has been lacking in translation: the essays, the publication of which will go far to explain why Gide holds in France such high rank as a critic. Many of the essays in Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Moralitywere provoked by events in the cultural and political world of twentieth-century France, a turbulent setting that produced a lasting literature. These essays are vintage Gide, informed by his characteristic spirit--his...
Most of Andre Gide's richly-varied literary output has long been available to American readers. Only one aspect of his protean career has been lack...
Cette edition critique du petit livre qui a coute tant d'efforts a son auteur retrace dans le detail la genese du roman, les diverses etapes de composition, les rapports entre certains episodes de la vie de Gide et son roman, notamment la periode ou Gide s'affirme communiste. Surtout cette edition donne le texte inedit du chapitre du roman supprime in extremis par Gide. Sont rassemblees egalement toutes les variantes du manuscrit du roman ainsi que celles de toutes les editions publiees du vivant de Gide. Il s'agit d'une veritable edition critique etablie par l'un des meilleurs specialistes...
Cette edition critique du petit livre qui a coute tant d'efforts a son auteur retrace dans le detail la genese du roman, les diverses etapes de compos...
First published nearly one hundred years ago, Andre Gide's masterpiece, translated from the original French by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard, draws from the disciplines of biology, philosophy, and history to support the author's assertion that homosexuality is a natural human trait
At the time of his death in 1951, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature only four years prior, Andre Gide was considered one of the most important literary minds of the twentieth century. In Corydon, initially released anonymously in installments between 1911 and 1920, Gide...
First published nearly one hundred years ago, Andre Gide's masterpiece, translated from the original French by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard...
This work lays bare the early brilliance and philosophical conflicts of Andre Gide, a towering figure in French literature Nobel Prize-winning writer Andre Gide lays bare his adolescent psyche in this early work, first conceived and published as part of his novel The Notebooks of Andre Walter, completed when he was just twenty years old. This profoundly personal work draws heavily on his religious upbringing and private journals to tell the story of a young man who, like the author, pines for his forbidden love, cousin Emmanuelle. This unique portrait of Gide as a young man...
This work lays bare the early brilliance and philosophical conflicts of Andre Gide, a towering figure in French literature Nobel Prize-winning ...
