{"product_id":"2026200015641-secondhand-the-immoralist","title":"The Immoralist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\n\nGide, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203260686555,"sku":"2026200015641-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7b1150d2-3714-4f7a-9dc1-9f6e836cbc21.png?v=1788146708","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015641-secondhand-the-immoralist","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}