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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.
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.
This new edition has been completely updated.
Includes illustrations featuring Gide, bibliography and notes. Paperback.
About the author
JEREMY ROBINSON has published poetry, ¿ction, and studies of J.R.R. Tolkien, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Hardy, André Gide and D.H. Lawrence. Robinson has edited poetry books by Novalis, Ursula Le Guin, Friedrich Hölderlin, Francesco Petrarch, Dante Alighieri, Arseny Tarkovsky, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Books on film and animation include: The Akira Book ¿ The Art of Katsuhiro Otomo ¿ The Art of Masamune Shirow ¿ The Ghost In the Shell Book ¿ Fullmetal Alchemist ¿ Cowboy Bebop: The Anime and Movie ¿ The Cinema of Hayao Miyazaki ¿ Hayao Miyazaki: Pocket Guide ¿ Princess Mononoke: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ Spirited Away: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ Blade Runner and the Cinema of Philip K. Dick ¿ Blade Runner: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ The Cinema of Donald Cammell ¿ Performance: Donald Cammell: Nic Roeg: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ Pasolini: Il Cinema di Poesia/ The Cinema of Poetry ¿ Salo: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ The Trilogy of Life Movies: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ The Gospel According To Matthew: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ The Ecstatic Cinema of Tony Ching Siu-tung ¿ Tsui Hark: The Dragon Master of Chinese Cinema ¿ The Swordsman: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ A Chinese Ghost Story: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ Ken Russell: England's Great Visionary Film Director and Music Lover ¿ Tommy: Ken Russell: The Who: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ Women In Love: Ken Russell: D.H. Lawrence: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ The Devils: Ken Russell: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ Walerian Borowczyk: Cinema of Erotic Dreams ¿ The Beast: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ The Lord of the Rings Movies ¿ The Fellowship of the Ring: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ The Two Towers: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ The Return of the King: Pocket Movie Guide ¿ Jean-Luc Godard: The Passion of Cinema ¿ The Sacred Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky ¿ Andrei Tarkovsky: Pocket Guide.
