| Description |
xix, 709 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 655-673) and index. |
| Contents |
ch. 1. Two stars, two races, two provinces, two faiths -- ch. 2. Childhood: schooldays and holidays (October 1874-October 1880) -- ch. 3. Youth: God and love (October 1880-September 1889) -- ch. 4. André Walter: Puritan and narcissist (October 1889-June 1891) -- ch. 5. Ironic narcissist: Le traité du narcisse, poésies d'André Walter, le voyage d'urien, la tentative amoureuse (June 1891-October 1893) -- ch. 6. Liberation and...engagement: 'J'écris...paludes' (October 1893-June 1895) -- ch. 7. Marriage and nomadism: les nourritures terrestres, saül, le prométhée mal enchaîné, philoctète (June 1895-October 1898) -- ch. 8. High hopes brought low: le roi candaule and l'immoraliste (November 1898-October 1902) -- ch. 9. Barren years: le retour de l'enfant prodigue and la porte étroite (October 1902-October 1908) -- ch. 10. The 'new' Gide and the founding of the NRF: Isabelle and les caves du Vatican (October 1908-August 1914) -- ch. 11. War: de profundis, summer's lease (August 1914-November 1918) -- ch. 12. Post-war years: la symphonie pastorale (November 1918-December 1921) -- ch. 13. Gide, homosexual theorist and father: Corydon and les Faux-monnayeurs (January 1922-July 1925) -- ch. 14. Heart of darkness: Voyage au Congo and L'ecole des femmes (July 1925-December 1930) -- ch. 15. Gide, 'fellow-traveller': Oedipe, Perséphone and Les Nouvells nourritures (January 1931-JUne 1936) -- ch. 16. retreat from Moscow, a sense of ending: retour de l'U.R.S.S. and Geneviéve (June 1936-September 1939) -- ch. 17. Another war: retreat and exile (September 1939-May 1945) -- ch. 18. 'The end of life...a rather dull last act': Thèsée and Ainsi soit-il (May 1945-February 1951). |
| Subject |
Gide, André, 1869-1951.
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Gide, André, 1869-1951. |
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Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, French. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0674035275 |
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