Andre Gide

Dunya Nimetleri ve Yeni Nimetler

اللاأخلاقي

Isabelle

Pastoral Senfoni

Kalpazanlar

The novel exemplifies the author's philosophy that man will find himself only when he follows his own emotions and rejects the conventions imposed by society

A Novel

The Counterfeiters

Theseus

O Imoralista

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.

Marshlands

De naïeve bewondering van een jonge vrouw voor haar verloofde verandert na hun huwelijk in haat als zij zijn schijnheiligheid ontdekt.

Kadinlar Okulu

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A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.

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.

An Autobiography

If It Die . . .

A landmark in world literature, Strait is the Gait describes a love affair-between an acutely sensitive boy growing up in Paris and his cousin from the countryside-that erupts into a soul-endangering passion. Jeroime Palissier spends many summers in rural Normandy, where the whole world seems ''steeped in azure,'' at the house of his uncle. He falls in love with his uncle's daughter, Alissa, and she with him, but as his ardor ascends to precarious heights, Alissa decides that the only way to save Jerome is to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself-in both mind and body. A devastating exploration of aestheticism taken to extremes, Strait is the Gate is a novel of haunting beauty that stimulates the mind and the emotions.

Strait is the Gate

Stuart Mason

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A Study

Oscar Wilde

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Les Nourritures Terrestres

Andre Gide, pemenang Nobel pada Tahun 1947 memang membenci kemunafikan, dan kebencian itu ia tampilkan melalui tokoh Eveline, yang akibat kekesalannya yang makin lama makin besar terhadap sikap munafik sang suami akhirnya mengingkari agamanya, dan meninggalkannya. Untuk masa ini mungkin tindakannya bukan masalah besar, tetapi untuk awal abad XX itu adalah semacam bunuh diri, karena dikutuk oleh masyarakat, apalagi itu adalah masyarakat bourgeoise Catholique di Prancis yang sangat puritan, yang terikat berbagai tradisi dan tatanan. Leimmoraliste memang lebih memperlihatkan pemberontakan hebat terhadap agama maupun adat-istiadat, begitu pula beberapa karyanya yang lain, tetapi, setelah membaca karya ini Anda tentu sudah bisa memahami mengapa Paus kemudian mengeluarkan larangan resmi untuk membaca semua karya Gide. Keputusan Paus tersebut, menurut para kritikus Prancis, pasti membuat Gide, pembenci moral-moral normatif, sangat gembira seandainya ia masih hidup.

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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.

Andre Gide

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