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Overview"One of the most important writers of the twentieth century, André Gide also led what was probably one of the most interesting lives our century has seen. Gide knew and corresponded with many of the major literary figures of his day, from Mallarmé to Oscar Wilde. Though a Communist, his critical account of Soviet Russia in Return from the USSR earned him the enmity of the Left. A lifelong advocate of moral and political freedom and justice, he was a proscribed writer on the Vatican's infamous ""Index."" Self-published most of his life, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947, at the age of 77. An avowed homosexual, he nonetheless married his cousin, and though their marriage was unconsummated, at 53 he fathered a daughter for a friend. Alan Sheridan's book is a literary biography of Gide, an intimate portrait of the reluctantly public man, whose work was deeply and inextricably entangled with his life. Gide's life provides a unique perspective on our century, an idea of what it was like for one person to live through unprecedented technological change, economic growth and collapse, the rise of socialism and fascism, two world wars, a new concern for the colonial peoples and for women, and the astonishing hold of Rome and Moscow over intellectuals. Following Gide from his first forays among the Symbolists through his sexual and political awakenings to his worldwide fame as a writer, sage, and commentator on his age, Sheridan richly conveys the drama of a remarkable life; the depth, breadth, and vitality of an incomparable oeuvre; and the spirit of a time that both so aptly expressed." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alan SheridanPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 14.10cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 22.50cm Weight: 0.862kg ISBN: 9780674003934ISBN 10: 0674003934 Pages: 752 Publication Date: 02 October 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsIn Andre Gide, Sheridan does an admirable job of showing us why Gide should not be forgotten...It is the very essence of Gide, the man and the writer, to bravely defy expected norms of behavior in his principled search for truth and meaning. It is, Sheridan asserts, one of the reasons he remains such a compelling figure. Gide's constant traveling, his unflinching introspection, his cult of sincerity with always insisting he tell the absolute truth in his books, no matter the consequence, make him very much a person of our own times.--Ulysses D'aquila Lambda Book Report Sheridan, who is a most careful and conscientious biographer, has amassed a remarkable amount of detail...[He] is both perceptive and restrained in his judgement that Gide has had much to say to several generations. Certainly he presents us with a most informative and detailed biography.--Douglas Johnson Literary Biography An excellent new study...Reading Sheridan's biography gives some of the same pleasure you get from reading Gide's Journals , which appeared between 1939 and 1950, or his vast published correspondence...In absorbing a great deal of Gide's own distinctive voice, one is reminded both of Graham Greene's world-weariness and of Joseph Conrad's cosmopolitanism...One of the reasons to enjoy the book by Sheridan is that Sheridan is an English academic, not an American one, and even though Sheridan has been one of Michel Foucault's many translators, he doesn't write in the trendy jargon of postcolonial studies, using words like Otherness, upper case, or alternity; He simply accepts that colonialism was the dominant form of international trade and culture when Gide was doing his most important work. -- Douglas Fetherling The Brunswick Reader Author InformationAlan Sheridan is the author of Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth. He has also translated over 50 books, including works by Sartre, Lacan, and Foucault. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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