Genevive Ou La Confidence Inacheve

by André Gide

Cette édition critique du petit livre qui a coûté tant d'efforts à son auteur retrace dans le détail la genèse du roman, les diverses étapes de composition, les rapports entre certains épisodes de la vie de Gide et son roman, notamment la période où Gide s'affirme communiste. Surtout cette édition donne le texte inédit du chapitre du roman supprimé in extremis par Gide. Sont rassemblées également toutes les variantes du manusrit du roman ainsi que celles de toutes les éditions publiées du vivant de Gide. Il s'agit d'une véritable édition critique établie par l'un des meilleurs spécialistes des études gidiennes, Andrew Oliver

348 pages, Paperback

First published January 7, 2010

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

[Ptjerónimo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Muito datado. O que se pretenderia ousado e provocador, surge-nos hoje como quase académico e pueril. Resta apurar qual a responsabilidade do tradutor (e reputado poeta) nisso...