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...