Madeleine - Softcover

Gide, Andre; O'Brien, Justin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0929587197 ISBN 13: 9780929587196

Verlag: Ivan R. Dee, 1989

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Book by Gide Andre OBrien Justin

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Reseña del editor:

"Madeleine" is the story of a great writer's marriage, a deeply disturbing account of Andre Gide's feelings toward his beloved and long-suffering wife. It was a relationship which Gide exalted-- he termed it the central drama of his existance-- yet deliberately shrouded in mystery.

This was no ordinary marriage. Madeleine Rondeaux, two years older than her cousin Andre Gide, became his wife after Gide's first visit to Algeria. In his "Journal", Gide refers to her as Emmanuele or as Em. Only in this book, written after her death and published a few months after his own death, does Gide call her by her real name and painfully reveal hte nature of their life together. In French, the book was published as "Et Nunc Manet in Te"-- from the line attributed to Virgil concerning the lost Eurydice, "and now she remains in you".

All of Gide's vast work may be viewed as a confession, impelled by his need to write what he believed to be true about himself. In "Madeleine" this act of confession reaches a crowning point. It isa complex tale by a complex man about a complex relationship.

Biografía del autor:

Winner of the Nobel Prize and one of the 20th century’s major writers, Andre Gide (1869–1951) is best known for his novelsThe Immoralist, Strait is the Gate, and The Counterfeiters, and his Journals.

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• Verlag: Ivan R. Dee
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0929587197
• ISBN 13: 9780929587196
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128