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If It Die (Vintage Classics)

If It Die (Vintage Classics)

by Andre Gide (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $12.77
Synopsis

If It Die is a record of Gide's childhood and early manhood, up until his engagement to his cousin. Written twenty years afterwards, it is a deliberately uninhibited and revealing exercise as well as a masterpiece of French prose, thus fulfilling the two criteria Gide set himself - to satisfy the demands of truth without neglecting the claims of art. It was said that in Gide 'les extrmes touchent', a predisposition that was to characterize all his work, and these antitheses are clearly acknowledged and used in his narrative in order to add extra layers of resonance and meaning. At the same time If It Die is a delightful and memorable account by itself of childhood, of friendships and travels, and of sexual awakening.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 07 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0099437848
ISBN 13: 9780099437840
Book Overview: In the Nobel Prize citation Andr- Gide's work was praised as 'a form of the passionate love of truth that, since Montaigne and Rousseau, has become a necessity in French literature'. A search for truth that was also apparent in Gide's long life, which he spent in revolt against social, political and moral conventions. 20020220

Author Bio
Gide was born in Paris on 22 November 1869. He had an irregular and lonely upbringing. He became devoted to literature and music, and began his literary career as an essayist, moving on to poetry, biography, fiction, drama, criticism, reminiscence and translation. By 1917 he had emerged as a prophet to French youth, and his unorthodox views were a source of endless debate and attack. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Gide died in Paris in 1951.