ANDRE GIDE: HOMOSEXUAL MORALIST,

Pollard, Patrick:

ISBN 10: 0300049986 / ISBN 13: 9780300049985

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1st edition, 1991,, 1992

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hardback in dustjacket, both as new, 498pp. Gide was homosexual, and his sexuality - and his awareness of it - was central to his creative life. This substantial volume is a landmark in Gide scholarship, and a significant contribution to the cultural history of homosexuality in the twentieth century.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ANDRE GIDE: HOMOSEXUAL MORALIST,
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1st edition, 1991,
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300049986
• ISBN 13: 9780300049985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

André Gide renowned French essayist novelist and playwright was a homosexual whose sexuality was central to the whole of his literary and political discourse. In the first serious study of homosexuality in Gide's theater and fiction Patrick Pollard analyzes his ideas and traces the philosophical anthropological scientific and literary movements that influenced his thought.