Fruits of the Earth
- ISBN-10
- 009943783X
- ISBN-13
- 9780099437833
- Series
- Fruits of the Earth
- Category
- Senses and sensation
- Pages
- 210
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
- Author
- Andre Gide
Description
During the author's travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, who relates his fantastic life story. But for all his brilliance, Menalcas is only Gide's yesterday self, a discarded wraith who leaves Gide free to stop exalting the ego and embrace bodily and spiritual joy. Later Fruits of the Earth, written in 1935 during Gide' s short-lived spell of communism, reaffirms the doctrine of the earlier book. But now he sees happiness not as freedom, but a submission to heroism. In a series of 'Encounters', Gide describes a Negro tramp, a drowned child, a lunatic and other casualties of life. These reconcile him to suffering, death and religion, causing him to insist that 'today's Utopia' be tomorrow's reality'.
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