Fruits of the Earth
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During the author's travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, who relates his fantastic life story. But for all his brilliance, Menalcas is only Gide's yesterday self, a discarded wrait...
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af Fruits of the Earth af Andre Gide
During the author's travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, who relates his fantastic life story. But for all his brilliance, Menalcas is only Gide's yesterday self, a discarded wraith who leaves Gide free to stop exalting the ego and embrace bodily and spiritual joy. During the author''s travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, who relates his fantastic life story. But for all his brilliance, Menalcas is only Gide''s yesterday self, a discarded wraith who leaves Gide free to stop exalting the ego and embrace bodily and spiritual joy. Later Fruits of the Earth, written in 1935 during Gide''s short-lived spell of communism, reaffirms the doctrine of the earlier book. But now he sees happiness not as freedom, but a submission to heroism. In a series of ''Encounters'', Gide describes a Negro tramp, a drowned child, a lunatic and other casualties of life. These reconcile him to suffering, death and religion, causing him to insist that ''today''s Utopia'' be ''tomorrow''s reality''.
Detaljer
Forlag
Vintage Classics
ISBN
9780099437833
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
224
Udgivelsesdato
07-03-2002
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3334784
EAN nr.
9780099437833
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
143
Bredde (mm)
197
Længde (mm)
17
Vægt (g)
164