false 469406 20 "Strait is the Gate", first published in 1909 in France as "La Porte etroite", is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism. --- André Gide (1869 - 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in between the two World Wars. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, without at the same time betraying one's values... --- "For Gide was very different from the picture most people had of him. He was the very reverse of an aesthete, and, as a writer, had nothing in common with the doctrine of art for art's sake. He was a man deeply involved in a specific struggle, a specific fight, who never wrote a line which he did not think was of service to the cause he had at heart." (Francois Mauriac) 702632 book 1327 Strait is the Gate (La Porte etroite) total:305|5:81|4:87|3:87|2:35|1:15| 305 1099 479 36 4 1 false false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sat Nov 29 18:06:32 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 15:42:17 -0800 2009 L'Immoraliste. I took him at his word and read them in rapid succession. By the way, I should say this was atypical - I'm a "when all else fails, read the instructions" kind of person, but I found both boo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982 Mon Jun 22 11:41:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 11:49:59 -0700 2009 Strait is the Gate (La Porte Etroite), Gide takes his title from a scripture in the New Testament that suggests there won't be a great number of people who get into heaven. The protagonist is a young woman who is determined to make the proper sacrifices from a traditionally re...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 08 01:17:47 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 08:38:22 -0700 2008
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Those that have read other Gide and know how he feels about religion can see that "Strait" is really a comment on religions shortcomings.

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Lots of rambling on and on in Alissa's journal entries toward the end about her battle with religion vs. love. Not interested.]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 20 08:47:56 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 08:56:51 -0800 2008