Folio: Porte Etroite (Series #210) (Paperback)

from stillatim

Gide has a rare talent for spotting important moral issues, particularly relevant to his own time, and then presenting them in a scrupulously fair manner. The Immoralist can be read as a defense of homosexuality (which I'd like to think doesn't really need a defense anymore), or as a defense of u...

from datrappert

This is a truly exasperating story of a man's love for a woman and how the insanity of religion destroys it. If you need proof that religion is a mental illness, look no further than the painful story of Alissa. This probably isn't how the author intended it, but how can an intelligent person int...

from wendyrey

Interesting story well written and engrossing. Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, wait a bit til they are a bit more confident, girl decides that faith is more important and that their love is somehow although not morally wrong not the route that God wishes for them. Girl freezes out boy ...

from kant1066

As with most all of Gide's best novels, this one concerns the anxiety and yearning at the heart of human experience. A very young Jerome Palissier regularly spends holidays at the house of his aunt and uncle's estate in Fongueusemare in rural Normandy. One day, he happens upon his cousin Alissa, ...

from bookworm12

Gide's story follows a young man, Jerome, and his love for Alissa, his cousin. The two fall in love (back when cousins marrying was completely normal) and everyone assumes they will soon marry. But Alissa becomes increasingly distant, distraught and consumed with religion. I had a hard time becom...