by André Gide · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070361175
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«Les Nourritures terrestres, seguido de Les Nouvelles nourritures» is the lyrical and philosophical work by André Gide in a Folio paperback (256 pages).
André Gide addresses a young interlocutor, Nathanaël, urging him toward fervour and openness to the world. The work combines poetic prose and meditative fragments, with calls to desire and vital energy, far from dogmas. It is completed with «Les Nouvelles nourritures», which extends that invitation to live authentically.
Work originally published in 1897. André Gide received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. French edition, number 117 in the Folio collection, 256 pages.
For readers interested in classics of French literature, poetic prose and philosophical reflection.
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."
