ANDRE GIDE: Two Symphonies & Et Ninc Manet in Te (2 VINTAGE Hardbacks) 1952

 THE WORKS OF ANDRE GIDE (Nobel Prize Winner 1947)

1) ET NINC MANET IN TE - Translated from the French by Justin O'Brien.

Rarely has a writer confessed himself more intimately in public than Gide.His vast JOURNALS, covering sixty years of literary life his frnk memoirs IF IT DIE, his outspoken pleas for homosexuality in CORYDON, are cases in point. Yet, even to those who studied his work most closely, the entire chapter of his conjugal lifewas missing and has remained a mystery.

Now at last we know All our quyestions are answered, as truthfully as it was in Gide's power to answer them, and in a prose as vibrant as anything he ever wrote. The story is here, in part in the form of passages deleted by Gide from the JOURNALS, in part the work written by Gide after his wife's death. The whole pitiful story, the tragedy of a very great artist whose wife stood at the very heart of his life and work, is contained in thse pages,

They will be read and discussed for many years to come throughout the world. Some will sympathise with the husband, otherts with the wife. The more discernimng will realise that nothing could have been other than it was in the lives of this unhappy pair.

A VINTAGE FIRST EDITION hardback published in 1952 by Secker & Warburg as part of the STANDARD EDITION OF THE WORKS OF ANDRE GIDE series (comes with original dustjacket)

 

2)  TWO SYMPHONIES - Translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy

ISABELLE. At La Quartfourche, a lonely Norman chateau, Gerard Lacase steps into a life as remote from that of Paris as though it had been of another world. M. and Mme Floche, the Abbe Santal, the Marquis de Sait Auriel and his wife, Casimir - what a queer assortment of humanity! Yet, like some rare jewel n a box of lumber there is the existence of Isabelle - unseen save in a minature, unknown were it not for veiled hints and furtive suggestions, but precious beyondcompare to Lacase.

PASTORAL SYMPHONY is the story of a country pastor's psychological upheaval on falling in love, all unwittingly, with a young blind girl whom he has befriended and educated. The extracts from his diary are strangely and pitifully self-revealing - the whole Symphony a work of strength and insight.

A VINTAGE hardback published in 1949 by Cassell and Co Ltd as part of the STANDARD EDITION OF THE WORKS OF ANDRE GIDE series (Comes with original dustjacket)