354 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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Most of Andre Gide's richly-varied literary output has long been available to American readers. Only one aspect of his protean career has been lacking in translation: the essays, the publication of which will go far to explain why Gide holds in France such high rank as a critic. Many of the essays in Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality were provoked by events in the cultural and... Read more
Introduction by Justin O’Brien; Four Lectures; The Barris Problem; Imaginary Interviews from “L’Ermitage”; Nationalism and Literature; License, Moral Depravity, and Senator Bénger’s Declarations; In Memoriam; Baudelaire and M.Faguet; Political Essays; Notes to Angèle; Open Letter; Thoughts on Greek Mythology; Conversation with a German Several Years Before the War; The Ten French Novels…; Théophile Gautier; Prefaces; Upon Rereading “Les Plaisises et les Fours” After the Death of Marcel Proust; Paul Valéry; Dada; Portraits and Aphorisms
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Andre Gide
