"Madeleine" is the story of a great writer's marriage, a deeply disturbing account of Andre Gide's feelings toward his beloved and long-suffering wife. It was a relationship which Gide exalted-- he termed it the central drama of his existance-- yet deliberately shrouded in mystery. This was no ordi ...
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These tales, published in 1929, 1930, and 1937 respectively, are all examples of the literary style invented by Gide called ricit. A ricit is a first-person tale told from the single point of view of one character with no authorial voice, studiedly simple but intrinsically ironic. In the case of Gid ...
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