by André Gide · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070362295
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«L'Immoraliste» is the novel by André Gide, published by Folio in paperback (192 pages, in French).
After overcoming a serious illness, Michel, a young intellectual, experiences an awakening of the senses and a new vitality that clash with moral conventions. Together with his wife Marceline he embarks on a journey that becomes an exploration of individual freedom and the limits of one's own identity.
The novel was originally published in 1902; this edition is from 1972 and bears number 229 of the collection.
For readers of French classics and early 20th-century literature.
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."
