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Corydon (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
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Corydon (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
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List price R442
Loot Price R383
Discovery Miles 3 830
You Save R59 (13%)
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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 speaks his
most subversive and provocative truth. Citing myriad examples that
span thousands of years, Gide's Socratic dialogues argue that
homosexuality is natural--in fact, far more so than the social
construct of exclusive heterosexuality, the act of systematically
banning or ostracizing same-sex relationships. Corydon, named for
the pederast character in Virgil's Eclogues, caused its author "all
kinds of trouble," according to his friends, but he regarded it as
his most important work. The courage, intelligence, and prescience
of Gide's argument make it all the more impressive today.
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