by André Gide, Dorothy Bussy · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140014976
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«The Immoralist» is the novel by André Gide translated by Dorothy Bussy, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Michel, a young, wealthy, agnostic scholar, travels to Algeria with his wife Marceline. There he falls ill with tuberculosis and, during his convalescence, begins to question social and sexual conventions. His progressive liberation leads him to follow his own desires, and the novel asks to what extent civilization limits the individual and what price personal freedom carries.
The novel was originally published in 1902; this edition is part of the Penguin Modern Classics series.
Recommended for readers of French literary classics and novels exploring morality, identity, and individual freedom.
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."
