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Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
Content: "These Journals are André Gide's main testament to posterity. In them he records his sixty years of full and active life, as teacher, naturalist, musician, moral philosopher, critic and novelist, and discusses the problems he faced in his major works, The Vatican Cellars, Strait is the Gate and The Immoralist. As an artist Gide was both politically and intellectually committed on all the important issues of his day, and this is a record of his views, both impulsive and carefully considered, on the Dreyfus Case, the 1914 War, the spread of fascism and communism, and finally the Second World War. But above all, they reveal Gide's own serious moral attitude towards his art, which in the course of the Journals he transformed from talent to literary genius." (from the cover) Background / Biography:
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"With Pierre. We climb to the sixth floor of a house in rue Monsieur-le-Prince, looking for a place where our group can meet. Up there we find a huge room seeming even larger because of the lack of furniture. To the left of the door the ceiling slopes downward as in a mansard. Near the floor a small door opens into an attic extending the whole length of the house under the roof. In the opposite wall a window, just waist-high, provides a view over the roofs of the Medical School, over the Latin Quarter, of an expense of grey houses as far as the eye can see, the Seine and Notre-Dame in the setting sun, and, in the far distance, Montmartre barely visible in the evening mist. And together we dream of the impecunious student's life in such a room, with an unfettered pen as the only means of earning a living. And at your feet, on the other side of your writing-table, all Paris. And take refuge there with the dream of your masterpiece, and not come out until it is finished. Rastignac's famous cry as he looks down on the City from the heights of Père Lachaise: 'And now . . . you and I come to grips!' " first entry, Autumn 1889, footnotes omitted Secondhand booksellers |
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