Journals 1889-1949
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few literary documents capture the restless, searching mind of a Nobel laureate with such unguarded intimacy as Journals 1889–1949 — a sweeping, six-decade record of one of France's most celebrated and controversial writers. André Gide's journals chronicle his inner life with extraordinary candour, spanning the Belle Époque, two World Wars, and the seismic cultural upheavals that reshaped Western civilisation, all filtered through the sharp, probing consciousness of a man perpetually at war with convention, faith, and desire. Gide writes with a precision and self-awareness that places him firmly in the tradition of Montaigne and Pascal, transforming the personal journal into a supreme literary form. His entries range from meditations on art, morality, and religion to acute observations on his contemporaries — Proust, Valéry, and Conrad among them — presenting a portrait of an era as much as a self-portrait of the man. This is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the intellectual and moral landscape of twentieth-century Europe, and a testament to why the journal, in the hands of a master, becomes something far greater than a private confession.
Author: André Gide
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few literary documents capture the restless, searching mind of a Nobel laureate with such unguarded intimacy as Journals 1889–1949 — a sweeping, six-decade record of one of France's most celebrated and controversial writers. André Gide's journals chronicle his inner life with extraordinary candour, spanning the Belle Époque, two World Wars, and the seismic cultural upheavals that reshaped Western civilisation, all filtered through the sharp, probing consciousness of a man perpetually at war with convention, faith, and desire. Gide writes with a precision and self-awareness that places him firmly in the tradition of Montaigne and Pascal, transforming the personal journal into a supreme literary form. His entries range from meditations on art, morality, and religion to acute observations on his contemporaries — Proust, Valéry, and Conrad among them — presenting a portrait of an era as much as a self-portrait of the man. This is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the intellectual and moral landscape of twentieth-century Europe, and a testament to why the journal, in the hands of a master, becomes something far greater than a private confession.