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Author : André Gide
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book La porte étroite written by André Gide and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : André Gide
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780394700274
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Strait Is the Gate written by André Gide and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1956-02-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : André Gide
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Strait is the Gate written by André Gide and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel probes the complexities and terrors of adolescence and growing up. Based on a Freudian interpretation, the story uses the influences of childhood experience and the misunderstandings that can arise between two people. Strait is the Gate taps the unassuaged memory of Gide's unsuccessful wooing of his cousin between 1888 and 1891. Much of the story is written as an epistolary novel between the protagonist Jérôme and his love Alissa. Much of the end of the novel is taken up by an exploration into Alissa's journal that details most of the events of the novel from her perspective. The story is set in a French north coast town. Jerome and Alissa, cousins, as 10-11-year olds make an implicit commitment of undying affection for each other. However, in reaction to her mother's infidelities and from an intense religious impression, Alissa develops a rejection of human love. Nevertheless, she is happy to enjoy Jérôme's intellectual discussions and keeps him hanging on to her affection. Jérôme thereby fails to recognise the real love of Alissa's sister Juliette who ends up making a fairly unsatisfactory marriage with M. Tessière as a sacrifice to her sister Alissa's love for Jérôme. Jérôme believes he has a commitment of marriage from Alissa, but she gradually withdraws into greater religious intensity, rejects Jérôme and refuses to see him for longer and longer stretches of time. Eventually she dies in Paris from an unknown malady which is almost self-imposed. The ending of the novel occurs ten years after Alissa's death with the meeting of Jérôme and Juliette. Juliette seems content to have a happy life with five children and a husband, but their conversation together in a room that resembles Alissa's concerns whether or not one can hold onto a love that is unrequited; as Jérôme still loves Alissa, so it would seem that Juliette still loves Jérôme, though both loves are equally as impossible.
Author : André Gide
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Prometheus Illbound written by André Gide and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Sheridan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674035270
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (352 download)
Download or read book André Gide written by Alan Sheridan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheridan presents a literary biography of one of the most important writers of the 20th century--an intimate portrait of the reluctantly public man, whose work was deeply and inextricably entangled with his life. 35 halftones.
Author : Andre Gide
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101910445
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book If It Die written by Andre Gide and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate André Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters. Gide led a life of uncompromising self-scrutiny, and his literary works resembled moments of that life. With If It Die, Gide determined to relay without sentiment or embellishment the circumstances of his childhood and the birth of his philosophic wanderings, and in doing so to bring it all to light. Gide’s unapologetic account of his awakening homosexual desire and his portrait of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas as they indulged in debauchery in North Africa are thrilling in their frankness and alone make If It Die an essential companion to the work of a twentieth-century literary master.
Author : Andrei Makine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684852683
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Dreams Of My Russian Summers written by Andrei Makine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-08-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international bestseller has been translated into 26 languages and is the first work to win both of France's top literary honors. "A masterpiece. . . . Makine belongs on the shelf of world literature--between Lermontov and Nabokov, a few volumes down from Proust".--"The Atlanta Journal".
Author : Andre Gide
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804154074
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Immoralist written by Andre Gide and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1902 and immediately assailed for its themes of omnisexual abandon and perverse aestheticism, The Immoralist is the novel that launced André Gide's reputation as one of France's most audacious literary stylists, a groundbreaking work that opens the door onto a universe of unfettered impulse whose possibilities still seem exhilarating and shocking. Gide's protagonist is the frail, scholarly Michel, who shortly after his wedding nearly dies of tuberculosis. He recovers only through the ministrations of his wife, Marceline, and his sudden, ruthless determination to live a life unencumbered by God or values. What ensues is a wild flight into the realm of the senses that culminates in a reomote outpost in the Sahara--where Michel's hunger for new experiences at any cost bears lethal consequences. The Immoralist is a book with the power of an erotic fever dream--lush, prophetic, and eerily seductive.
Author : Andre Gide
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374722
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Marshlands written by Andre Gide and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual. André Gide is the inventor of modern metafiction and of autofiction, and his short novel Marshlands shows him handling both forms with a deft and delightful touch. The protagonist of Marshlands is a writer who is writing a book called Marshlands, which is about a reclusive character who lives all alone in a stone tower. The narrator, by contrast, is anything but a recluse: He is an indefatigable social butterfly, flitting about the Paris literary world and always talking about, what else, the wonderful book he is writing, Marshlands. He tells his friends about the book, and they tell him what they think, which is not exactly flattering, and of course those responses become part of the book in the reader’s hand. Marshlands is both a poised satire of literary pretension and a superb literary invention, and Damion Searls’s new translation of this early masterwork by one of the key figures of twentieth-century literature brings out all the sparkle of the original.
Author : Jim Booth
Publisher : Watchmaker Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780972178600
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (786 download)
Download or read book The New Southern Gentleman written by Jim Booth and published by Watchmaker Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover
Author : André Gide
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453244662
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Notebooks of André Walter written by André Gide and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThis debut work lays bare the early brilliance and philosophical conflicts of André Gide, a towering figure in French literature/divDIV /divDIVAndré Gide, one of the masters of French literature, captures the essence of the philosophical Romantic in this profoundly personal first novel, completed when he was just twenty years old. Drawing heavily on his religious upbringing and private journals, The Notebooks of André Walter—with its “white” and “black” halves—tells the story of a young man pining for his forbidden love, cousin Emmanuelle. But his evocative memories and devoted yearnings, carefully crafted through quotations and diary excerpts, lead only to madness and death./divDIV /divDIVAnnotated with footnotes from translator and scholar Wade Baskin, this story within a story offers a unique portrait of the artist as a young man, as it reveals the key themes of self-analysis and moral conscience that Gide explores in his mature works./div
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : NEw York, C. Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Livre Des Sans-foyer written by Edith Wharton and published by NEw York, C. Scribner. This book was released on 1916 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the course of fund-raising for civilian victims of World War I, Edith Wharton assembled this monumental benefit volume by drawing upon her connections to the era's leading authors and artists. The unique compilation forms a 'Who's Who' of early 20th century culture, featuring poetry, stories, illustrations, music and other contributions from scores of luminaries. ... Much of the text is presented in both English and French. Includes an Introduction by former U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt."--
Author : Ring Lardner
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616140968
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Ecstasy of Owen Muir written by Ring Lardner and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in post World War II America, this classic novel is the story of what happens when an idealistically, fiercely honest young man, with no strong religious affiliation, marries a Roman Catholic woman. Renowned writer Ring Lardner, Jr., dissects the thought control of the McCarthy era, business ethics, racial intolerance, attitudes toward sex, and other social phenomenon. 272 p.
Author : André Gide
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453244689
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Urien's Voyage written by André Gide and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVNobel Prize–winning writer André Gide marks his voyage toward self-discovery in this imaginative allegorical work/divDIV /divDIVWhen Urien and his sailing companions begin their voyage, it is to places unknown and, perhaps, only dreamed. This allegorical masterpiece from André Gide, a key figure of French letters, deftly illustrates the techniques and doctrine of the Symbolist movement—and the dual nature of Gide’s own psyche. Written at a crucial time in his artistic development, this imaginative work signals his gradual abandonment of acetic celibacy toward an embrace of pleasure and carnal desires, revealing a Gide more transparent in this early work than in his mature writings./divDIV /divDIVTranslator and scholar Wade Baskin annotates the work, connecting Gide’s life and bibliography to the text./div
Author : Effie Rentzou
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526145049
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book 1913: The year of French modernism written by Effie Rentzou and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes its cue from the annus miabilis for French culture to outline French modernism and to situate it on the map of global modernism. Essays on specific works in various media present the first narrative of French modernism as a critical category and establish its position in the thriving field of modernist studies.
Author : André Gide
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 159569062X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)
Download or read book Strait is the Gate written by André Gide and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2007 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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)
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004433481
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book On Translating French Literature and Film II written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
