Diario. Vol. 1 / 1887-1925

by André Gide, Piero Gelli (Curatore), Sergio Arecco (Traduzione)

Il "diario" che André Gide cominciò a scrivere nel 1887 e tenne praticamente tutta la vita, fino alla morte nel 1951, pubblicandone larghe parti durante tutta la sua esistenza, finisce con l'essere l'opera sua più narrativa, nel desiderio di crearsi personaggio. Ma è anche indubbiamente un documento intimo, segreto, pubblico, civile, politico, per l'ansia di verità che lo anima e le battaglie condottevi (per l'omosessualità, i diritti umani violati nei paesi coloniali, in quelli comunisti). L'edizione odierna è la prima completa, perché i curatori francesi hanno recuperato anche le parti che l'autore teneva nel cassetto, ritenendole, per vari motivi, non pubblicabili.

Genres: France

1558 pages, Unknown Binding

First published October 3, 1996

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