Strait is the Gate

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Strait is the Gate

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ISBN: 9780141185248
author: Andre Gide
translator: Dorothy Bussy
publishing house: Penguin Classics
publication date: 2001 -2
binding: Paperback
price: GBP 12.00
number of pages: 128

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Andre Gide    translator: Dorothy Bussy

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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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