Souvenirs de la cour d'assises

by André Gide

128 pages

Published January 18, 2024

About the author

Diaries and novels, such as The Immoralist (1902) and Lafcadio's Adventures (1914), of noted French writer André Gide examine alienation and the drive for individuality in an often disapproving society; he won the Nobel Prize of 1947 for literature.

André Paul Guillaume Gide authored books. From beginnings in the symbolist movement, career of Gide ranged to anticolonialism between the two World Wars.

Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes the conflict and eventual reconciliation to public view between the two sides of his personality; a straight-laced education and a narrow social moralism split apart these sides. One can see work of Gide as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and it gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of full self, even to the point of owning sexual nature without betraying values at the same time. After his voyage of 1936 to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the same ethos informs his political activity, as his repudiation of Communism suggests.

Chinese 安德烈·纪德

Reviews

[Joshua · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

Un court recueil de notes qui porte à réflexion sur le rôle des jurés - et son fonctionnement - au sein d’une affaire judiciaire. À réformer ? Assurément.

[Umut Arda Köprülüoğlu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Premier ouvrage de Gide que j'ai pu lire et peut être le dernier. J'ai bien apprécié la minutie avec laquelle il transplanta la réalité sans fard de tribunaux à la veille de la première guerre mondiale en France. Gide offre un récit concis et bien écrit, qui plonge le lecteur dans une série de procès qu'il suit. Toutefois, au gré de mes lectures j'ai fait connaissance avec cet auteur qui présentait des submersions totalement condamnables et odieuses de son vivant. On ne peut pas séparer l'homme de l'artiste et c'est regrettable.