En personlig reisedagbok som blander den politiske reportasje med det litterære og filosofiske essay. Forfatteren beskriver sin reise gjennom Sahara i en ramponert Renault i fotsporene til den klassiske ørken -litteraturens mestre: Saint-Exupéry, Isabelle Eberhardt, Pierre Loti, Eugène Fromentin, Michel Vieuchange og André Gide.

Set in the 1890s, Andre Gide's famous satire centres around a group of ingenious fraudsters ('The Millipede') who convince their wealthy victims that the pontiff has been imprisoned in the Vatican cellars, and a false Pope has been enthroned in his place. Posing as clergy, they con money by promising to obtain the true Pope's release and restoration. The book features one of Gide's most memorable creations: the amoral Lafcadio, who in pushing a man from a moving train commits the ultimate motiveless crime. Unavailable in the UK for 25 years, this scandalous, funny and highly original novel has been re-translated to mark the centenary of its publication. Supported by English PEN.

Pocket-utgave på originalspråket fransk, klassisk fransk roman fra 1925.

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Boken inneholder følgende fortellinger: 1."Livet på markene" av Giovanni Verga. 2."Den trange port" av Andre Gide. 3."Aspern-papirene" av Henry James. 4."De døde" av James Joyce.

Fra Mesterverk i verdenslitteraturen

This book presents a selection of some of the most significant critical work written on Andre Gide during his lifetime and since. As a major writer of the twentieth-century, his life and creative output, as well as his role as a leading intellectual, attracted comment from prominent contemporaries and continues to have relevance today. Containing a substantial introduction and overview, this compilation offers a variety of illuminating perspectives that will inform and guide the general and specialist reader.

This book consists in synthesizing the theme of economy in Gide's work. Considering his economic texts from the historic and the modern point of view, this work consider the peculiarity and the topicality of the thought of the author as well as the impact of diverse questions which this thought implies.

Tidligere programdirektør i NRK, Otto Nes, har skrevet en rekke artikler om bøker, forfattere, litteratur generelt og om fjernsynet på nært hold. Disse er nå samlet i boken Dikter med dop og andre forfattere: artikler om litteratur og beslektede temaer. Tittelen henspeiler på åpningsartikkelen om Thomas De Quincey som brukte opium og skrev om sine erfaringer lenge før dette ble aktuelt på 1960-tallet. De omtalte forfatterne er Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett, Aphra Behn, Lewis Carroll, Charles Darwin, Gustaf Fröding, André Gide, Martin Heidegger, Ted Hughes, James Joyce, J. M. Keynes, M. B. Landstad, John Milton, Robert Musil, Harold Pinter, Marcel Proust, John Ruskin, William Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard, Aslaug Vaa, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf m. fl. Artiklene er tilrettelagt som bok av Ragnhild S. Stuler

Most of Andre Gide's richly-varied literary output has long been available to American readers. Only one aspect of his protean career has been lacking in translation: the essays, the publication of which will go far to explain why Gide holds in France such high rank as a critic. Many of the essays in Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality were provoked by events in the cultural and political world of twentieth-century France, a turbulent setting that produced a lasting literature. These essays are vintage Gide, informed by his characteristic spirit-his hard brilliance, pointed honesty, and the enduring relevance of his concerns. Readers of his Journals will be prepared for the style, intelligence, and marksmanship that Gide brings to bear in these forty-two articles on life as well as on letters.His range, as always, is broad: a long and moving memoir of his encounters with Oscar Wilde; a series of combats against reactionary nationalists and self-appointed purifiers of morals; estimates of Mallarme, Baudelaire, Proust, Gautier, and Valery, among others; letters to Jacques Riviere, Jean Cocteau, and Francis Jammes; and general essays on art, literature, the theater, and politics. Justin O'Brien, famous for his studies in modern French literature, has written that Gide is "related to La Fontaine and Racine by his essential conciseness and crystalline style, to Montaigne and Goethe by his inquiring mind which reconciled unrest and serenity, to Baudelaire by his lucid, prophetic criticism." O'Brien, who has done so much to bring contemporary French literature to America, supervised the translations in Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality, prepared several of them himself, and contributes an informative general introduction and additional commentary to preface the various sections of this major book.

Utvalg og innledning ved Andrè Gide

Modernism After the Death of God explores the work of seven influential modernists. Friedrich Nietzsche, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Andre Gide, and Martin Heidegger criticized the destructive impact that they believed Christian sexual morality had had or threatened to have on their love life. Although not a Christian, Freud criticized the negative effect that Christian sexual morality had on his clinical subjects and on Western civilization, while Virginia Woolf condemned how her society was sanctioned by a patriarchal Christian authority. All seven worked to replace the loss or absence of Christian unity with non-Christian unifying projects in their respective fields of philosophy, psychiatry, or literature. The basic structure of their main contributions to modernist culture was a dynamic interaction of radical fragmentation necessitating radical unification that was always in process and never complete.

The study draws on Pierre Bourdieu's literary field theory and recent French historiography on intellectualism to submit the literary field in France in the decade after the First World War to as exhaustive an analysis as possible. The major debates of this period on national and/or international commitment, Catholicism, and the generation conflict collide with the notion of literary autonomy gaining greater momentum in the course of the 1920s. At the heart of these controversies are authors such as Jacques Riviere, Andre Gide, Philippe Soupault, Jean Cocteau, and Jacques Maritain."