Fruits Of The Earth Paperback / softback
by Andre Gide
Paperback / softback
Description
During the author's travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, who relates his fantastic life story.
But for all his brilliance, Menalcas is only Gide's yesterday self, a discarded wraith who leaves Gide free to stop exalting the ego and embrace bodily and spiritual joy.
Later Fruits of the Earth, written in 1935 during Gide's short-lived spell of communism, reaffirms the doctrine of the earlier book.
But now he sees happiness not as freedom, but a submission to heroism.
In a series of 'Encounters', Gide describes a Negro tramp, a drowned child, a lunatic and other casualties of life.
These reconcile him to suffering, death and religion, causing him to insist that 'today's Utopia' be 'tomorrow's reality'.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:07/03/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780099437833
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:07/03/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780099437833