by André Gide · French and European Publications Inc · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070360185
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«La symphonie pastorale» is the novel by André Gide, published by French and European Publications Inc in paperback format (149 pages, in French).
A pastor takes in a young blind woman named Gertrude and becomes her guide towards knowledge and affections. In the novel, love, blindness, honour and mortality intertwine, and its title refers to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, which Gertrude hears at a concert in Neuchâtel.
The edition belongs to the Folio collection (number 18) and its cover mentions André Gide's Nobel Prize in Literature.
For readers of French literary classics and of André Gide's short novels.
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. Author of more than 50 books, he was described in his New York Times obituary as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."
