The Immoralist
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A man returns from the brink of death only to find that survival has shattered everything he once believed in — The Immoralist is André Gide's razor-sharp psychological portrait of Michel, a repressed French scholar who, after nearly dying of tuberculosis in North Africa, undergoes a radical and unsettling self-reinvention. Set against the sun-scorched landscapes of Algeria and the rigid social conventions of turn-of-the-century Europe, the novel chronicles Michel's fierce awakening to sensual pleasure, personal freedom, and the dangerous rejection of moral obligation, all told through the frame of a devastating confession to his closest friends. Gide, the 1947 Nobel Laureate in Literature, crafts a work of quietly explosive intensity, using Michel's transformation to interrogate the tensions between individualism and social duty, authenticity and self-destruction. A foundational text of French modernism, The Immoralist anticipates the existentialist movement and echoes powerfully in the works of Camus and Sartre. Presented here in the classic Penguin Books edition — complete and unabridged — this is a novel that doesn't merely challenge its protagonist's values; it turns a mirror on the reader and asks what price true freedom really demands.
Author: André Gide
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A man returns from the brink of death only to find that survival has shattered everything he once believed in — The Immoralist is André Gide's razor-sharp psychological portrait of Michel, a repressed French scholar who, after nearly dying of tuberculosis in North Africa, undergoes a radical and unsettling self-reinvention. Set against the sun-scorched landscapes of Algeria and the rigid social conventions of turn-of-the-century Europe, the novel chronicles Michel's fierce awakening to sensual pleasure, personal freedom, and the dangerous rejection of moral obligation, all told through the frame of a devastating confession to his closest friends. Gide, the 1947 Nobel Laureate in Literature, crafts a work of quietly explosive intensity, using Michel's transformation to interrogate the tensions between individualism and social duty, authenticity and self-destruction. A foundational text of French modernism, The Immoralist anticipates the existentialist movement and echoes powerfully in the works of Camus and Sartre. Presented here in the classic Penguin Books edition — complete and unabridged — this is a novel that doesn't merely challenge its protagonist's values; it turns a mirror on the reader and asks what price true freedom really demands.