Andre Gide Fiction And Fervour

Andreacute; Gidenbsp;fiction And Fervournbsp;by Jeremy Robinsonnbsp; Andreacute; Gide (1869-1951) Is A Writerrsquo;s Writer, A Sophisticated Modern Artist Who Progressed From French Symbolism To International Postmodernism. Andreacute; Gide Is A Mass Of Contradictions, Paradoxes And Tensions Of All Kinds. He Is Puritanical But Pagan An Ascetic Who Adores Sensuality An Atheist Who Yearns For God A Homosexual Who All His Life Loved His Wife, Madeleine Rondeaux He Strived For Objectivity While Remaining One Of The Most Introspective Of Writers He Needed The Rainy Domesticity Of Normandy And The Sun-baked Wildness Of North Africa Despite His Prolific Output He Produced Only One Novel (in His Sense Of The Term) He Is Very Much A Part Of The Modern European Tradition (of Fyodor Dostoievsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Rimbaud And Steacute;phane Mallarmeacute;), While Also Standing Outside It All, Unclassifiable.