The door was closed. However, the lock liable up a resistance low enough and that a break was going to shove ... At that moment I heard a footstep, I hid in the removal of the wall.
I could not see coming out of the garden, but I heard, I felt it was Alissa. She took three steps forward, called feebly
- Are you Jerome? ...
My heart was beating violently, stopped, and, as my throat could not get out a word, she repeated louder
- Jerome! Is this you?
To hear and call me the emotion that embraced me was so strong it made me fall to my knees.
I will not keep this an unforgettable read, quite the contrary. It was made in a climate of almost constant rebellion. In addition I found terribly boring, austere, and certainly more effective than any sleeping pill.
I did not like the style that I immediately appeared turgid, austere, ornate. All of this is outdated, quaint, old-fashioned. It took a struggle to read the 30 pages I fulfill every time I opened this book not to sleep.
What about the story?
Jerome Alissa loves her cousin, who loves him too. For the moment everything goes well, he would let them marry, they had many children, as prescribed by the Christian religion, and the case would be heard in we'll talk more ... .. Well no, Alissa's sister, Juliet, also loves Jerome (what a success!), And Alissa realizes. And it where the case turns sour. Alissa lets himself go, aspires to holiness, and love to a sublime renunciation and sacrifice.
outset Protestant austerity is palpable, and the smallest piece of flesh visible color or inappropriate cause scandal and outrage.
"And you call also mourning what she has red shawl over her shoulders? Flora, you revolt me! Cried my mother "
Within this family, nobody knows what he wants; One hesitates, asks questions, worries, tears ... ...
"Everything in it was that question and qu'attente ... I'll tell you how this question came over me, made my life
Alissa is versatile: when she is alone, she writes letters burning (within the limits of morality, anyway!) to Jerome, and when it's around, she does not see it, and wants to suffer righteously ... ... It would have deserved a good shaking blow.
The key to this book lies in the Gospels "Strive to enter through the narrow gate, because the door wide and the broad way leads to destruction, and many people who spend " This is the voice of sacrifice, the pursuit of supreme difficulty to guide the characters in the conduct of their lives ... ..
This life of rigor they like, they seek it. Then Alissa suffering is a fact, but I remain unmoved by it all. It's her choice, she assumes. They assume, for Jerome is equally illuminated, indoctrinated. They take everything for absolute truth and there is no place for free will and critical thinking ... ..
I was, despite I soaked religion, and stories like this, and I struggled to impose my own way, so I can not understand this resignation, this lack of fighting spirit.
Any idea of sacrifice, of life precludes all pleasure, denial of happiness, guilt permanent unbearable. These are concepts which do not adhere very Christian at all.
Therefore, I am sure he must be infinitely believer to appreciate this book. A masterpiece for sure, a story of no interest to me. I did not like at all. I have read, almost in full, since I flew very high I log Alissa, because he was short. Otherwise, he would have suffered the same fate as his comrades rich: back in the closet.
Andre Gide Folio No pages 210-185
Nobel Prize winner in 1947 , Andre Gide is considered a major writer of the twentieth century, a contemporary capital 'in the words of Andrew Malraux. First close symbolist circles, he gradually becomes detached from this movement and published his first major work, 'The Fruits of the Earth' in 1897. There is already talk the issue of homosexuality - a theme echoed in the essay entitled 'Corydon' - and proclaims its desire to satisfy his desires and to overcome the social and religious easements. These new beliefs put an end to his friendship with the fervent Catholic Paul Claudel. All his life, Andre Gide focuses on the role and responsibility of the writer and became a leader of the New French review. Its success grows after the First World War thanks to his theory of the 'gratuitous' developed in 'Les Caves du Vatican'. With 'The Counterfeiters', the author signed his masterpiece work and is a forerunner of the New Novel by its complex narrative form, refusal to linear chronology, multiplication of perspectives and intrusion side stories . The richness of the work of Andre Gide lies largely in its apparent contradiction of a man high in the strict Protestant, very attached to the moral order, but always in search of freedom, in search of his own literary codes and existential.
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