You can download the text on Google Books too! This is my first Gide, and I’m looking forward to it. I’ll be reading this as well as Anna and Master Humphries with you.
Thanks, Henry, for this choice. I must say I won't be reading it along with you as I read it while doing my Frech studies and reread it not too long ago. Ok, no spoilers here, but let me just add that it is one of those books that no matter how many times we read it, we will always find something new on its lines and above all, in between its lines. Fascinating.
In the 1970s the Welsh Joint Education Committee had ‘La Porte Étroite’ as a set book for French A level. What a strange choice. I grew to love it and the luminous quality of Gide’s writing but it was almost impossible for me to get my head around its premise . Maybe the religious aspects of it made the board choose it as an antidote to the zeitgeist? .Anyway it was an experience I wouldn’t have missed because it led me to the rest of André Gide - and that was an education I’m not sure that’s what the board intended.
You can download the text on Google Books too! This is my first Gide, and I’m looking forward to it. I’ll be reading this as well as Anna and Master Humphries with you.
Fantastic - thanks Linda! So good to have you on board.
Thanks, Henry, for this choice. I must say I won't be reading it along with you as I read it while doing my Frech studies and reread it not too long ago. Ok, no spoilers here, but let me just add that it is one of those books that no matter how many times we read it, we will always find something new on its lines and above all, in between its lines. Fascinating.
That’s great to hear Christina – I can’t wait to get started . . .
In the 1970s the Welsh Joint Education Committee had ‘La Porte Étroite’ as a set book for French A level. What a strange choice. I grew to love it and the luminous quality of Gide’s writing but it was almost impossible for me to get my head around its premise . Maybe the religious aspects of it made the board choose it as an antidote to the zeitgeist? .Anyway it was an experience I wouldn’t have missed because it led me to the rest of André Gide - and that was an education I’m not sure that’s what the board intended.
That does seem like a strange choice! But how great that you loved it.