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 the nature of their life together. All of Gide's
vast work may be viewed as a confession, impelled by his need to
write what he believed to be true about himself. In Madeleine this
act of confession reaches a crowning point. It is a complex tale by
a complex man about a complex relationship. "Ranks among the
masterpieces of Gide's vibrating prose. It is also the most tragic
personal document to have emanated from Gide's pen."-New York
Times.
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