{"product_id":"andr-gide-a-life-in-the-present-9780674003934","title":"Andr Gide: A Life in the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the most important writers of the twentieth century  Andr Gide also led what was probably one of the most interesting lives our century has seen. Gide knew and corresponded with many of the major literary figures of his day  from Mallarm to Oscar Wilde. Though a Communist  his critical account of Soviet Russia in Return from the USSR earned him the enmity of the Left. A lifelong advocate of moral and political freedom and justice  he was a proscribed writer on the Vaticans infamous Index. Self-published most of his life  he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947  at the age of 77. An avowed homosexual  he nonetheless married his cousin  and though their marriage was unconsummated  at 53 he fathered a daughter for a friend.  Alan Sheridans book is a literary biography of Gide  an intimate portrait of the reluctantly public man  whose work was deeply and inextricably entangled with his life. Gides life provides a unique perspective on our century  an idea of what it was like for one person to live through unprecedented technological change  economic growth and collapse  the rise of socialism and fascism  two world wars  a new concern for the colonial peoples and for women  and the astonishing hold of Rome and Moscow over intellectuals. Following Gide from his first forays among the Symbolists through his sexual and political awakenings to his worldwide fame as a writer  sage  and commentator on his age  Sheridan richly conveys the drama of a remarkable life; the depth  breadth  and vitality of an incomparable oeuvre; and the spirit of a time that both so aptly expressed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651920126005,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674003934","price":35.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674003934.jpg?v=1781845235","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/andr-gide-a-life-in-the-present-9780674003934","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}