by André Gide
Why do we behave the way that we do? Psychologists would argue about nature versus nurture, but they rarely go so far as to talk about the ongoing pressures that family and society and law and religion and culture have on us as adults. André Gide’s The Vatican Cellars, originally published in 1914, ...
The gratuitous act.... A great, great novel -- with a very modern, philosophical twist. Something made me think of it today....