During the author's travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, who relates his fantastic life story. But for all his brilliance, Menalcas is only Gide's yesterday self, a discarded wraith who leaves Gide free to stop exalting the ego and embrace bodily and spiritual joy. Later Fruits of the Earth, written in 1935 during Gide's short-lived spell of communism, reaffirms the doctrine of the earlier book. But now he sees happiness not as freedom, but a submission to heroism. In a series of 'Encounters', Gide describes a Negro tramp, a drowned child, a lunatic and other casualties of life. These reconcile him to suffering, death and religion, causing him to insist that 'today's Utopia' be 'tomorrow's reality'.

Fruits of the Earth

GIDE,ANDRE

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage

"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. André Gide (1869 - 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. 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 honesty.

Strait is the Gate (Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Bussy, Dorothy

Literary

Penguin Classics

Immoralist (Modern Classics)

KNOPF

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La Symphonie Pastorale and Isabelle

Classics

Penguin Putnam~trade

The Counterfeiters (Modern Classics)

British & Irish

Penguin Books, Ltd.

SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. SCUFFING, EDGE WEAR AND SOME DINGS ON COVERS AND SPINE. CLEAN PAGES.

Travels in the Congo

Viking/Penguin

Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of use

The Immoralist (Twentieth Century Classics)

Contemporary

"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. --- André 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 honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, without at the same time betraying one's values... --- "For Gide was very different from the picture most people had of him. He was the very reverse of an aesthete, and, as a writer, had nothing in common with the doctrine of art for art's sake. He was a man deeply involved in a specific struggle, a specific fight, who never wrote a line which he did not think was of service to the cause he had at heart." (Francois Mauriac)

Strait Is the Gate (Twentieth Century Classics)

"La Symphonie Pastorale" is the tale of a country priest who takes into his home a blind orphan with the purpose of educating her, but develops a deep love for her - with tragic consequences. "Isabelle" explores the nature of a different kind of love - a passion based on pure fantasy.

La Symphonie Pastorale & Isabelle (Twentieth Century Classics S.)

The Vatican Cellars (Twentieth Century Classics)

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