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Andre Gide: Fiction and Fervour

Andre Gide: Fiction and Fervour

Robinson, Jeremy

Hardcover

Series: European Writers

Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1861717865
ISBN13: 9781861717863
Publisher: Crescent Moon Pub
Published: Mar 16 2020
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

ANDRÉ GIDE

FICTION AND FERVOUR

By Jeremy Robinson

André Gide (1869-1951) is a writer's writer, a sophisticated modern artist who progressed from French Symbolism to international postmodernism.

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.

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