André Gide by Walker, David H., editor instant download

André Gide by Walker, David H., editor instant download

1 online resource, This volume presents a selection of some of the most significant critical work written on Andre Gide during his lifetime and since. As a major writer of the twentieth century, his life, work, and role as a leading intellectual attracted comment from prominent contemporaries and continues to have relevance today. The study contains a substantial introduction to the life and major influences on Gide's writing, exploring the dual stresses of homosexuality and religious dogma that set him on his search for identity and integrity in the face of convention. Two further sections discuss both the general themes in Gide's work and address particular texts including among others L'Immoraliste (1902), Les Caves du Vatican (1914) and Les Faux Monnayeurs (1926). Each contribution contains an introductory headnote to set the piece in context and a bibliography, index and glossary complete the text, Vendor-supplied metadata, Includes bibliographical references and index, 1. From Pagan Daemon to Christian Devil / Justin O'Brien -- 2. Liberation from the existing social order / Mischa Harry Fayer -- 3. Time sequences and consequences in the Gidian world / Germaine Bree -- 4. Gide's Prodigal: economics, fiction and the acte gratuit / David Steel -- 5. Andre Gide and autobiography / Philippe Lejeune -- 6. Andre Gide's shields / Lucien Dallenbach -- 7. The keyhole metaphor and the parable / Vinio Rossi -- 8. L'Immoraliste / Albert Guerard -- 9. L'Immoraliste: slips of the text / Emily Apter -- 10. readers and reading in La Porte Etroite / Albert Sonnenfeld -- 11. Religion and its avatar in La Porte Etroite / W.M.L. Bell -- 12. The figurative representation of the literary process in La Symphonie Pastorale / Alain Goulet -- 13. Gratuitous action and the aesthetic perspective in Les Caves du Vatican / Jean Hytier -- 14. Challenging the novel in Les Faux-Monnayeurs / David H. Walker