André Gide : a life in the present /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Two stars, two races, two provinces, two faiths
- ch. 2. Childhood: schooldays and holidays (October 1874-October 1880)
- ch. 3. Youth: God and love (October 1880-September 1889)
- ch. 4. André Walter: Puritan and narcissist (October 1889-June 1891)
- ch. 5. Ironic narcissist: Le traité du narcisse, poésies d'André Walter, le voyage d'urien, la tentative amoureuse (June 1891-October 1893)
- ch. 6. Liberation and ... engagement: 'J'écris ... paludes' (October 1893-June 1895)
- ch. 7. Marriage and nomadism: les nourritures terrestres, saül, le prométhée mal enchaîné, philoctète (June 1895-October 1898)
- ch. 8. High hopes brought low: le roi candaule and l'immoraliste (November 1898-October 1902)
- ch. 9. Barren years: le retour de l'enfant prodigue and la porte étroite (October 1902-October 1908)
- ch. 10. The 'new' Gide and the founding of the NRF: Isabelle and les caves du Vatican (October 1908-August 1914)
- ch. 11. War: de profundis, summer's lease (August 1914-November 1918)
- ch. 12. Post-war years: la symphonie pastorale (November 1918-December 1921)
- ch. 13. Gide, homosexual theorist and father: Corydon and les Faux-monnayeurs (January 1922-July 1925)
- ch. 14. Heart of darkness: Voyage au Congo and L'ecole des femmes (July 1925-December 1930)
- ch. 15. Gide, 'fellow-traveller': Oedipe, Perséphone and Les Nouvells nourritures (January 1931-JUne 1936)
- ch. 16. retreat from Moscow, a sense of ending: retour de l'U.R.S.S. and Geneviéve (June 1936-September 1939)
- ch. 17. Another war: retreat and exile (September 1939-May 1945)
- ch. 18. 'The end of life ... a rather dull last act': Thèsée and Ainsi soit-il (May 1945-February 1951).