Summary

An ingenious metaphor provides the framework for this pene­trating study of André Gide. To explore Gide’s “labyrinth of values,” Ben Stoltzfus uses the Prometheus legend as a point of departure, and with discerning erudition develops the thread that runs throughout Gide’s writings. Each book, from Les Cahiers d’André Walter (1891) to Thésée (1946), along with his voluminous Journal, is seen as revealing a moral and aesthetic effort to draw away from bondage or self-deception, from spiritual blindness, and from submission to authority. .

Book Details

• Physical Description: 4.9"x8.2"x0.9"; 0.1 lb; 208 pages
• Edition Info: Hardcover; 1969-03-01

Subjects

• Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- General
• Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- French

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