The Immoralist View By André Gide
| Title | : | The Immoralist |
| Author | : | André Gide |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 144 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0142180025 |
The humanist has four leading characteristics curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and a belief in the human race and all four are present in Gide the humanist of our age E.M ForsterIn The Immoralist , Andr Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his own nature The story s protagonist, Michel, knows nothing about love The humanist has four leading characteristics curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and a belief in the human race and all four are present in Gide the humanist of our age E.M ForsterIn The Immoralist , Andr Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his own nature The story s protagonist, Michel, knows nothing about love when he marries the gentle Marceline out of duty to his father On the couple s honeymoon to Tunisia, Michel becomes very ill, and during his recovery he meets a young Arab boy whose radiant health and beauty captivate him An awakening for him both sexually and morally, Michel discovers a new freedom in seeking to live according to his own desires But, as he also discovers, freedom can be a burden A frank defense of homosexuality and a challenge to prevailing ethical concepts, The Immoralist is a literary landmark, marked by Gide s masterful, pure, simple style.For than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English speaking world With than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up to date translations by award winning translators
about Author
Andr Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947 Gide s career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, s Andr Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947 Gide s career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straight laced education and a narrow social moralism 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, even to the point of owning one s sexual nature, without at the same time betraying one s values His political activity is informed by the same ethos, as suggested by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR 
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The humanist has four leading characteristics curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and a belief in the human race and all four are present in
144 pagesAndré Gide
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