Fruits Of The Earth

by Andre Gide

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 009943783X

ISBN-13 9780099437833

Publisher Vintage Publishing

Imprint Vintage Classics

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 7th, 2002

Print length 224 Pages

Weight 164 grams

Dimensions 19.70 x 14.30 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Biography: general Literary essays

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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.

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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