The Immoralist/L'Immoraliste: A Dual-Language Book
One of Gide's best-known works, The Immoralist concerns the unhappy consequences of amoral hedonism, telling the story of a man who travels through Europe and North Africa and attempts to transcend the limitations of conventional morality. The author's simplicity of style is skillfully retained...
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One of Gide's best-known works, The Immoralist concerns the unhappy consequences of amoral hedonism, telling the story of a man who travels through Europe and North Africa and attempts to transcend the limitations of conventional morality. The author's simplicity of style is skillfully retained in this translation, which also preserves the passion of the original.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486426952 (0486426955)
Publish date: December 8th 2011
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
20th Century,
Philosophy,
France,
French Literature,
Glbt,
Nobel Prize
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ثُمَّ لا أتنازَلُ عن حُبّ هذا الكاتب المُعجِب: أندريه جيد!يا لهُ من كاتبٍ فذّ ومُبدِع! هذا الكِتاب الثاني الذي أقرؤه لهُ، بعد السيمفونية الريفية، ولا بدّ لي من أن أعترف أنني أشهَدٌ لهذا الكاتِب بالعقل النابِغ والقَلب الحيّ. الرواية عِبارة عن سَرد لتجربَة شخصيَّة مع الحياة. بحُلوها القليل ومُرِّها ال...
The Immoralist clearly prefigures work as diverse as DEeath in Venice and The Stranger. However, it's not nearly as good as most of the books that it influenced. The boo0k is about a scholarly man, who after almost dying from a sickness, resolves to live life to the fullest. This apparently means...
Apparently starring Oscar Wilde? This looks dope.
Gide is a fascinating and often very subtle writer - despite the subject material - and sometimes you wish he would allow Michel to really cut loose - like he does in little spats. There are some absolutely sparkling passages here. well worthy of an alleged inventor of the French modernist novel, bu...
With a title like The Immoralist, you might expect something along the lines of Sade. You’d be way off base. Instead, this novel is more subtle, more like Death in Venice, complete with its themes of a septic environment, tuberculosis, and, perhaps, pederasty. The protagonist, Michel, is captivated ...
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