Fruits Of The Earth
by
Andre Gide
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
009943783X
ISBN-13
9780099437833
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Imprint
Vintage Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 7th, 2002
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
164 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 14.30 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: generalLiterary essays
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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 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''.
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