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La séquestrée de Poitiers / L'affaire Redureau
Le 22 mai 1901, le procureur général de Poitiers apprend par une lettre anonyme que Mlle Mélanie Bastian, cinquante-deux ans, est enfermée depuis vingt-cinq ans chez sa mère, veuve de l'ancien doyen de la faculté des lettres, dans une chambre sordide, parmi les ordures. Comment cette affaire, où la culpabilité de Mme Bastian et de son fils semble évidente, put-elle aboutir à l'acquittement des inculpés ?
André Gide démonte magistralement le dossier de cette affaire devenue légendaire. Et il conclut : "Ne jugez pas."
André Gide démonte magistralement le dossier de cette affaire devenue légendaire. Et il conclut : "Ne jugez pas."
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143 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 6, 2012
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André Gide
915 books1,735 followersDiaries 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
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
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August 25, 2018
De departe cea mai concisă descriere a faptelor în procesul care a îngrozit Europa la începutul secolului XX, respectiv afacerea Monnier.
Schița nu oferă o explicație dedesubturilor speței, Gide tratând totul ca un judecător imparțial, ajungând la concluzia, aidoma celei Curții franceze, de a-i achita pe inculpați, în ciuda întregii vâlve stârnite de odiosul caz. Dar faptele nu sunt întotdeauna ceea ce par, iar opinia publică ar trebui să fie rezervată în chestiunile cu privire la care nu dispune de suficiente date pentru a-și forma o viziune clară. Celeritatea gurii și prejudecățile destabilizează sisteme: iată de ce a scris Gide Sechestrata din Poitiers.
P.S. după citire, a se vedea și articolul scris de tăntălăii de la EVZ.ro cu privire la acest caz, nerecomandat celor care se scârbesc foarte ușor.
Schița nu oferă o explicație dedesubturilor speței, Gide tratând totul ca un judecător imparțial, ajungând la concluzia, aidoma celei Curții franceze, de a-i achita pe inculpați, în ciuda întregii vâlve stârnite de odiosul caz. Dar faptele nu sunt întotdeauna ceea ce par, iar opinia publică ar trebui să fie rezervată în chestiunile cu privire la care nu dispune de suficiente date pentru a-și forma o viziune clară. Celeritatea gurii și prejudecățile destabilizează sisteme: iată de ce a scris Gide Sechestrata din Poitiers.
P.S. după citire, a se vedea și articolul scris de tăntălăii de la EVZ.ro cu privire la acest caz, nerecomandat celor care se scârbesc foarte ușor.
April 12, 2025
Le genre de murder mystery que je lis, mais en vrai cette fois. Merci Botton, et vive le droit pénal.
July 21, 2025
very dirty (literally)
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