Arnold Bennett introduces André Gide's Dostoevsky as a remarkable critical study by a writer uniquely fitted to judge the Russian novelist: one who combines aesthetic delicacy with moral seriousness. Gide's lectures, first delivered in 1922, argue that Dostoevsky belongs beside Tolstoy, Ibsen, and Nietzsche as one of the central minds of modern Europe, and perhaps beyond them in his reach into moral and spiritual truth. He answers Western objections to Dostoevsky's apparent irrationality b...

André Gide's The Immoralist opens as a daring psychological inquiry into a man who cannot be neatly judged, with the author explicitly refusing to condemn or excuse Michel and instead presenting him as a human "problem" to be examined honestly. Framed by a letter from a concerned narrator to a powerful brother-like friend, the story gathers an intimate circle of companions—Michel, Marceline, Denis, Daniel, and the narrator—who reunite at Michel's isolated house in North Africa, where the b...

The Immoralist by André Gide is a profound and psychologically intense novel that explores the struggle between personal desire and moral constraint. Through the intimate portrait of a young man's inner awakening, the story examines how illness, recovery, and self-discovery can radically reshape one's understanding of identity, freedom, and responsibility. The narrative follows Michel, a scholar who, after surviving a serious illness, embarks on a journey of self-exploration that leads him...

“My novel hasn’t got a subject. Yes, I know it sounds stupid…let’s say, if you prefer it, it hasn’t got one subject…and the subject of the book, if you must have one, is just that the very struggle between what reality offers him and what he himself desires to make of it.”In a novel about a novelist writing a novel that mirrors the novel he is in, what is the reality of the story? The Counterfeiters, written by Nobel Prize winner, André Gide, is an impressively layered and...

Strait is the Gate by André Gide is a profound reflection on love, sacrifice, and the quest for spiritual perfection. Published in 1909, this work focuses on the characters Alissa and Jérôme, who share mutual affection from childhood, but whose love is marked by renunciation and suffering.Through this story, Gide explores themes such as emotional repression, the conflicts between desire and morality, and the ways in which religious or philosophical ideals can shape...

André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951), known as André Gide, was a renowned French writer. Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1947 and founder of the prestigious Gallimard Publishing House, André Gide is one of the most prominent figures in French cultural life of this century. His works present many autobiographical aspects and expose moral and religious conflicts that do not disregard his homosexual tendencies. With the experimental novel "The Counterfeiters," written in 1925, André Gide...

A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual.André Gide is the inventor of modern metafiction and of autofiction, and his short novel Marshlands shows him handling both forms with a deft and delightful touch. The protagonist of Marshlands is a writer who is writing a book called Marshlands, which is about a reclusive character who lives all alone in a stone tower. The narrator, by contras...

This is Andreas Gide’s 1931 novella, “Two Symphonies”. It's the story of a blind girl who is adopted by a pastor with a large family, and describes the unfortunate turmoil and friction that ensue. This marvellous tale is highly recommended for fans of Gide’s work, and would make for a fantastic addition to any collection. André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869–1951) was a French author who won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. His work often takes on the form of an exploration of freedom, and i...

The French writer, André Gide, Nobel Laureate in Literature in 1947, wrote " The Fruits of the Earth" while suffering from tuberculosis. In the form of a long letter or discourse to an imaginary correspondent - Nathanael, an idealized disciple and companion - it appears to be a hymn to the intoxicating pleasures of everyday life, truly appreciable only by someone close to death, for whom each breath is miraculous. It speaks of sensations s...

A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.

In 1890, during the pontificate of Leo XIII, Anthime Armand-Dubois, unbeliever and freemason, visited Rome in order to consult Dr. X, the celebrated specialist for rheumatic complaints. “What!” cried Julius de Baraglioul, his brother-in-law. “Is it your body you are going to treat in Rome? Pray Heaven you may realise when you get there that your soul is in far worse case.” To which Armand-Dubois replied in a tone of excessive commiseration: “My poor dear fellow, just look at my shoulders.”...

This debut work lays bare the early brilliance and philosophical conflicts of André Gide, a towering figure in French literatureAndré Gide, one of the masters of French literature, captures the essence of the philosophical Romantic in this profoundly personal first novel, completed when he was just twenty years old. Drawing heavily on his religious upbringing and private journals, The Notebooks of André Walter—with its "white" and "black" halves—tells the ...