André Gide

Michel, a young Frenchman living in an Algerian village, nearly succumbs to a fatal illness and, after recovering, rebels against his former standards of morality.

The Immoralist

"Strait is the Gate", first published in 1909 in France as "La Porte etroite", is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism. --- André Gide (1869 - 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in between the two World Wars. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, without at the same time betraying one's values... --- "For Gide was very different from the picture most people had of him. He was the very reverse of an aesthete, and, as a writer, had nothing in common with the doctrine of art for art's sake. He was a man deeply involved in a specific struggle, a specific fight, who never wrote a line which he did not think was of service to the cause he had at heart." (Francois Mauriac)

Strait is the Gate

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Experiences of French pilots who fly the night air mail in South America, of the courage and dangers involved, and of the ruthlessness of duty.

Vol de nuit

A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual. André Gide is the inventor of modern metafiction and of autofiction, and his short novel Marshlands shows him handling both forms with a deft and delightful touch. The protagonist of Marshlands is a writer who is writing "Marshlands," which is about a reclusive character who lives all alone in a stone tower. The narrator, by contrast, is anything but a recluse: He is an indefatigable social butterfly, flitting about the Paris literary world and always talking about, what else, the wonderful book he is writing--Marshlands. He tells his friends about the book, and they tell him what they think, which is not exactly flattering, and of course those responses become part of the book in the reader's hand. Marshlands is both a poised satire of literary pretension and a superb literary invention, and Damion Searls's new translation of this early masterwork by one of the key figures of twentieth-century literature brings out all the sparkle of the original.

Marshlands

Dans Folioplus classiques, le texte intégral, enrichi d'une lecture d'image, écho pictural de l'oeuvre, est suivi de sa mise en perspective organisée en six points : mouvement littéraire : La crise du roman, genre et registre : Le roman à l'épreuve du miroir, l'écrivain à sa table de travail : Un roman carrefour, groupement de textes : La mise en abyme, chronologie : André Gide et son temps, fiche : Des pistes pour rendre compte de sa lecture.

Les faux-monnayeurs

Le "Journal des Faux-Monnayeurs" est le long dialogue de Gide avec ses personnages au fur et à mesure de leur création. C'est aussi son "cahier d'étude" qui permet de mieux sentir le mécanisme créateur du grand romancier.

Journal des faux-monnayeurs

100 recipes for jams, jellies, curds, cheeses, pickles, relishes, and cordials plus all the basic techniques and equipment.

Fruits of the Earth

Leyla Gürsel

Pastoral senfoni

Dar kapı

An essential Gay text, a brilliant "defense" of homosexuality, written by one of the world's greatest writers.

Corydon

The book "Prometheus Illbound" is one of the most characteristic books of Andre Gide: a work of pure intelectual fantasy, where the subtle brain of the author has full play. It is the expression of the humorous side of a mind which must be ranked among the greatest of the world's literature. "The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea," says Gide in the epilogue of "Prometheus Illbound." This is really the explanation of the whole book and of many other books of Gide. --- Andre Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. His other works include: "Les Caves du Vatican" ("Lafcadio's Adventures"), "Les Nourritures Terrestres" ("Fruits of the Earth"), "La Porte Etroite" ("Strait is the Gate"), "L'Immoraliste" ("The Immoralist") and many others.

Prometheus Illbound

In The Immoralist, Andre Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his own nature. The story's protagonist, Michel, knows nothing about love when he marries the gentle Marceline out of duty to his father. On the couple's honeymoon to Tunisia, Michel becomes very ill, and during his recovery he meets a young Arab boy whose radiant health and beauty captivate him. An awakening for him both sexually and morally, Michel discovers a new freedom in seeking to live according to his own desires. But, as he also comes to find, freedom can be a burden. A frank defense of homosexuality and a challenge to prevailing ethical concepts, The Immoralist is a literary landmark, marked by Gide's masterful, pure, simple style.

The Counterfeiters

When Lafcadio Wluiki, a street-smart nineteen-year-old in 1890s Paris, learns that he's heir to an ailing French nobleman's fortune, he's seized by wanderlust. Traveling through Rome in expensive new clothes, he becomes entangled in a Church extortion scandal involving an imprisoned Pope, a skittish purveyor of graveyard statuary, an atheist-turned-believer on the edge of insolvency, and all manner of wastrels, swindlers, aristocrats, adventurers, and pickpockets.

Lafcadio's Adventures

Maʼāhidāhhay-i zamīnī va Maʼāhidāhhay-i tāzah

PASTORAL SENFONİ Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü sahibi Fransız yazar André Gide'in 1919 tarihli novellasıdır. Kitabın adı Beethoven'ın Altıncı Senfonisi'ne gönderme yapar. Kör bir genç kızı himayesine alan papazın ve ailesinin çok sesli hikâyesidir.

Pastoral Senfoni

L'Immoraliste

L'immoralista

حبيسة بواتيه

Fasciné par la machine judiciaire comme par les aperçus des replis de l'âme humaine que lui apporte son expérience de juré, l'écrivain André Gide assiste pendant plusieurs semaines à divers procès : affaires de mœurs, infanticide, vols. Dans son texte dense et grave, Gide s'interroge sur la justice et son fonctionnement, mais surtout insiste sur la fragile barrière qui sépare les criminels des honnêtes gens.

André Gide

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