The Immoralist by André Gide
My rating: 4/5 cats
i feel a little dirty reading this sandwiched between all my children’s books for class. kids, take three giant steps back from gide… i think i loved this book, but i think i may want to read another translation. who knows from translations?? i have the richard howard one here, and i know he’s like a star in the french/english translation world but i didn’t like his introduction to this so much, and was wondering if there might be another recommended translation? i liked this book a lot, despite some perceived smugness from that intro. what an appalling character to fall in love with! so many layers of unpleasantness! ingratitude, sexual deviancy, racial audacity. and the second french book i’ve read this summer with men embracing plants. what is with my people? ahhhh les arbres…
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