by André Gide · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070400119
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«La Symphonie pastorale» is the short novel by André Gide, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback, with 176 pages in French.
The story is followed through the diary of a Swiss pastor who takes in a young blind woman named Gertrude. As the pastor educates her and opens up a world she cannot see, an intimate relationship grows between them, leading to a morally conflicted love. The work addresses real and metaphorical blindness, faith, conscience, and the boundaries between good and evil.
Novel originally published in 1919; this 1997 edition offers the complete text with a dossier and belongs to the Folio Plus collection.
Intended for readers of French classics and for students of twentieth-century French 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."
