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Madeleine Paperback - 1989

by Andre Gide; Introduction by Justin O'Brien; Justin O'Brien (Translator)


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"Madeleine" is the story of a great writer's marriage, a deeply disturbing account of Andre Gide's feelings toward his beloved and long-suffering wife. It was a relationship which Gide exalted-- he termed it the central drama of his existance-- yet deliberately shrouded in mystery.

This was no ordinary marriage. Madeleine Rondeaux, two years older than her cousin Andre Gide, became his wife after Gide's first visit to Algeria. In his "Journal", Gide refers to her as Emmanuele or as Em. Only in this book, written after her death and published a few months after his own death, does Gide call her by her real name and painfully reveal hte nature of their life together. In French, the book was published as "Et Nunc Manet in Te"-- from the line attributed to Virgil concerning the lost Eurydice, "and now she remains in you".

All of Gide's vast work may be viewed as a confession, impelled by his need to write what he believed to be true about himself. In "Madeleine" this act of confession reaches a crowning point. It isa complex tale by a complex man about a complex relationship.

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"Madeleine" is the story of a great writer's marriage, a deeply disturbing account of Andre Gide's feelings toward his beloved and long-suffering wife. It was a relationship which Gide exalted-- he termed it the central drama of his existance-- yet deliberately shrouded in mystery.

This was no ordinary marriage. Madeleine Rondeaux, two years older than her cousin Andre Gide, became his wife after Gide's first visit to Algeria. In his "Journal", Gide refers to her as Emmanuele or as Em. Only in this book, written after her death and published a few months after his own death, does Gide call her by her real name and painfully reveal hte nature of their life together. In French, the book was published as "Et Nunc Manet in Te"-- from the line attributed to Virgil concerning the lost Eurydice, "and now she remains in you".

All of Gide's vast work may be viewed as a confession, impelled by his need to write what he believed to be true about himself. In "Madeleine" this act of confession reaches a crowning point. It isa complex tale by a complex man about a complex relationship.

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  • Title Madeleine
  • Author Andre Gide; Introduction by Justin O'Brien; Justin O'Brien (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Elephant P
  • Pages 124
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ivan R. Dee Publisher, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 1989-11-19
  • ISBN 9780929587196 / 0929587197
  • Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.48 x 0.41 in (21.62 x 13.92 x 1.04 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Library of Congress subjects Women - France - Biography, Authors, French - 20th century - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89035479
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Winner of the Nobel Prize and one of the 20th century's major writers, Andre Gide (1869-1951) is best known for his novels The Immoralist, Strait is the Gate, and The Counterfeiters, and his Journals.
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