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Most of Andre Gide's richly-varied literary output has long been
available to American readers. Only one aspect of his protean
career has been lacking in translation: the essays, the publication
of which will go far to explain why Gide holds in France such high
rank as a critic. Many of the essays in Pretexts: Reflections on
Literature and Morality were provoked by events in the cultural and
political world of twentieth-century France, a turbulent setting
that produced a lasting literature. These essays are vintage Gide,
informed by his characteristic spirit his hard brilliance, pointed
honesty, and the enduring relevance of his concerns. Readers of his
Journals will be prepared for the style, intelligence, and
marksmanship that Gide brings to bear in these forty-two articles
on life as well as on letters. His range, as always, is broad: a
long and moving memoir of his encounters with Oscar Wilde; a series
of combats against reactionary nationalists and self-appointed
purifiers of morals; estimates of Mallarme, Baudelaire, Proust,
Gautier, and Valery, among others; letters to Jacques Riviere, Jean
Cocteau, and Francis Jammes; and general essays on art, literature,
the theater, and politics. Justin O'Brien, famous for his studies
in modern French literature, has written that Gide is "related to
La Fontaine and Racine by his essential conciseness and crystalline
style, to Montaigne and Goethe by his inquiring mind which
reconciled unrest and serenity, to Baudelaire by his lucid,
prophetic criticism." O'Brien, who has done so much to bring
contemporary French literature to America, supervised the
translations in Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality,
prepared several of them himself, and contributes an informative
general introduction and additional commentary to preface the
various sections of this major book.
Most of Andre Gide's richly-varied literary output has long been
available to American readers. Only one aspect of his protean
career has been lacking in translation: the essays, the publication
of which will go far to explain why Gide holds in France such high
rank as a critic. Many of the essays in "Pretexts: Reflections on
Literature and Morality" were provoked by events in the cultural
and political world of twentieth-century France, a turbulent
setting that produced a lasting literature. These essays are
vintage Gide, informed by his characteristic spirit--his hard
brilliance, pointed honesty, and the enduring relevance of his
concerns. Readers of his "Journals "will be prepared for the style,
intelligence, and marksmanship that Gide brings to bear in these
forty-two articles on life as well as on letters. His range, as
always, is broad: a long and moving memoir of his encounters with
Oscar Wilde; a series of combats against reactionary nationalists
and self-appointed purifiers of morals; estimates of Mallarme,
Baudelaire, Proust, Gautier, and Valery, among others; letters to
Jacques Riviere, Jean Cocteau, and Francis Jammes; and general
essays on art, literature, the theater, and politics. Justin
O'Brien, famous for his studies in modern French literature, has
written that Gide is "related to La Fontaine and Racine by his
essential conciseness and crystalline style, to Montaigne and
Goethe by his inquiring mind which reconciled unrest and serenity,
to Baudelaire by his lucid, prophetic criticism." O'Brien, who has
done so much to bring contemporary French literature to America,
supervised the translations in "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature
and Morality," " "prepared several of them himself, and contributes
an informative general introduction and additional commentary to
preface the various sections of this major book.
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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Marshlands (Paperback)
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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.
"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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Andre Gide; Translated by Julian Evans
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Set in the 1890s, Andre Gide's famous satire centres around a group
of ingenious fraudsters ('The Millipede') who convince their
wealthy victims that the pontiff has been imprisoned in the Vatican
cellars, and a false Pope has been enthroned in his place. Posing
as clergy, they con money by promising to obtain the true Pope's
release and restoration. The book features one of Gide's most
memorable creations: the amoral Lafcadio, who in pushing a man from
a moving train commits the ultimate motiveless crime. Unavailable
in the UK for 25 years, this scandalous, funny and highly original
novel has been re-translated to mark the centenary of its
publication. Supported by English PEN.
This collection of reflective essays forms a spiritual
autobiography of Andre Gide, a key figure of French letters Andre
Gide, a literary and intellectual giant of twentieth-century
France, mines his memories and personal observations in this
collection of essays. Gide s reflections and commentary masterfully
showcase his delicate writing style and evocative sensibility,
yielding new insights on writers such as Goethe and contemporaries
Joseph Conrad, Nicolas Poussin, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul-Marie
Verlaine. Through it all, Gide skillfully investigates humanity s
contradictory nature and struggles to resolve the moral, political,
and religious conflicts inherent in daily life.
This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
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1925. French writer, humanist, and moralist who received the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1947. Gide's search for self, the
underlying theme of his several works, remained essentially
religious. Throughout his career Gide used his writings to examine
moral questions. He is as well known for his influence as a
moralist and a thinker as for his contributions to literature.
Lafcadio Wluiki is one of the original creations in modern fiction.
Gide's preoccupation with the gratuitous action, the unmotivated
crime-it has a place in more than one of his books-here receives
its most extended treatment, and Lafcadio is the instrument. With
characteristic irony, Gide leads the police to a solution wherein
the wrong man is apprehended and punished for the crime, while the
charmingly perverse Lafcadio goes free. The action passes with
cinematographic speed, chiefly in the capitals of Europe. The
actors, other than Lafcadio, are noblemen, saints, adventurers and
pickpockets. See other titles by this author available from
Kessinger Publishing.
1925. French writer, humanist, and moralist who received the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1947. Gide's search for self, the
underlying theme of his several works, remained essentially
religious. Throughout his career Gide used his writings to examine
moral questions. He is as well known for his influence as a
moralist and a thinker as for his contributions to literature.
Lafcadio Wluiki is one of the original creations in modern fiction.
Gide's preoccupation with the gratuitous action, the unmotivated
crime-it has a place in more than one of his books-here receives
its most extended treatment, and Lafcadio is the instrument. With
characteristic irony, Gide leads the police to a solution wherein
the wrong man is apprehended and punished for the crime, while the
charmingly perverse Lafcadio goes free. The action passes with
cinematographic speed, chiefly in the capitals of Europe. The
actors, other than Lafcadio, are noblemen, saints, adventurers and
pickpockets. See other titles by this author available from
Kessinger Publishing.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Muerto en Paris, donde paso los ultimos anos de su vida bajo
seudonimo, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), irlandes de nacimiento pero
ingles de devocion, tuvo que afrontar un escandaloso proceso por
B+ultraje a la moralB; en la rigida sociedad victoriana, que habria
de llevarle a la carcel y al exilio. Andre Gide (Paris 1869-1951,
premio Nobel de Literatura en 1947) no ofrece aqui una biografia de
Wilde o un ensayo sobre su obra, sino que recoge dos B+semblanzasB;
la primera, escrita apenas un ano despues de la muerte del autor de
Balada de la carcel de Reading, es una elegia a la memoria de un
escritor que, defendiendo los principios del B+arte por el arteB; ,
paga, paradojicamente, la practica del arte con la propia vida; la
segunda es un analisis, antes moral (aqui sin comillas) que
literario, del poema De Profundis, que Wilde escribiera en prision
en forma de carta dirigida a Lord Douglas, el personaje
desencadenante de su desgracia, y que no se publicaria hasta 1905,
postumamente. Dos textos, en suma, que nos hablan de la categoria
humana y artistica de dos escritores de nuestro tiempo.
Muerto en Paris, donde paso los ultimos anos de su vida bajo
seudonimo, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), irlandes de nacimiento pero
ingles de devocion, tuvo que afrontar un escandaloso proceso por
B+ultraje a la moralB; en la rigida sociedad victoriana, que habria
de llevarle a la carcel y al exilio. Andre Gide (Paris 1869-1951,
premio Nobel de Literatura en 1947) no ofrece aqui una biografia de
Wilde o un ensayo sobre su obra, sino que recoge dos B+semblanzasB;
la primera, escrita apenas un ano despues de la muerte del autor de
Balada de la carcel de Reading, es una elegia a la memoria de un
escritor que, defendiendo los principios del B+arte por el arteB; ,
paga, paradojicamente, la practica del arte con la propia vida; la
segunda es un analisis, antes moral (aqui sin comillas) que
literario, del poema De Profundis, que Wilde escribiera en prision
en forma de carta dirigida a Lord Douglas, el personaje
desencadenante de su desgracia, y que no se publicaria hasta 1905,
postumamente. Dos textos, en suma, que nos hablan de la categoria
humana y artistica de dos escritores de nuestro tiempo.
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