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Strait is the Gate

» André Gide

Translator - Dorothy Bussy

Penguin Classics
Paperback : 22 Feb 2001

£12.00

Synopsis

A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside, where the whole world seems 'steeped in azure'. There he falls deeply in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually Alissa becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation, she decides to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself - in both mind and body

A devastating exploration of aestheticism taken to extremes, Strait is the Gate is a novel of haunting beauty that stimulates the mind and the emotions.

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‘One of our century’s supreme masterpieces’ – Paul Binding, Independent on Sunday

Product details

Format : Paperback
ISBN: 9780141185248
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 128
Published : 22 Feb 2001
Publisher : Penguin Classics

Strait is the Gate

» André Gide

Translator - Dorothy Bussy

£12.00

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