ANDRE GIDE

<p>ANDRÉ GIDE</p><p> </p><p>FICTION AND FERVOUR</p><p> </p><p>By Jeremy Robinson</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>André Gide (1869-1951) is a writer’s writer a sophisticated modern artist who progressed from French Symbolism to international postmodernism. </p><p>André Gide is a mass of contradictions paradoxes and tensions of all kinds. He is puritanical but pagan • an ascetic who adores sensuality • an atheist who yearns for God • a homosexual who all his life loved his wife Madeleine Rondeaux • he strived for objectivity while remaining one of the most introspective of writers • he needed the rainy domesticity of Normandy and the sun-baked wildness of North Africa • despite his prolific output he produced only one novel (in his sense of the term) • he is very much a part of the modern European tradition (of Fyodor Dostoievsky Friedrich Nietzsche Rainer Maria Rilke Gustave Flaubert Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé) while also standing outside it all unclassifiable. </p><p>The book concentrates on the texts Fruits of the Earth The Immoralist and the Journals and aspects of Gide’s work such as art religion philosophy love and identity. </p><p>This new edition has been completely updated. </p><p>Includes illustrations featuring Gide bibliography and notes. Paperback. </p><p> </p>