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Andre Gide: The Homosexual Moralist
Price: $9.98
Publisher: Yale University Press : December 1991
Seller ID: 440194
ISBN-13: 9780300049985
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
Andre Gide, renowned French essayist, novelist, and playwright, was also a homosexual apologist whose sexuality was central to the whole of his literary and political discourse. This book by Patrick Pollard--the first serious study of homosexuality in Gide's theater and fiction--analyzes his ideas and traces the philosophical, anthropological, scientific, and literary movements that influenced his thought. Pollard begins by discussing Corydon, a defense of pederasty that Gide felt was his most important book. He then provided a historical and analytical survey of books that contributed to Gid...
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