"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 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)
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