《The Immoralist》Author: [France] André Gide Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press

💌 "Strait is the Gate" dedicated to a lifelong soulmate and creative inspiration,

possessing the extreme restraint of "Strait is the Gate" and the chest-baring intensity of "The Immoralist",

directly confronting the loss of love and rebuilding oneself amidst imperfection;

📒 "Gide's Journal" reveals the innermost truths and spiritual monologues,

gazing at the dizziness of modernity, transcending the era with the guise of truth,

"If only one work could be preserved, I think it would be my journal."

📖 Directly translated from French by a senior translator, meticulously annotated, with a special inclusion of Gide's creative chronology.

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【About the Content】

—"I force myself to be highly faithful to myself. I have new things to say."

"Strait is the Gate" is dedicated to his soulmate and creative inspiration, Madeleine:

"All my works pay homage to her; no writing has stemmed from such private motives as mine."

Writing is the ultimate salvation from mourning and loss, cutting through all facets of the self, directly confronting desire, betrayal, and guilt,

also revealing the traces of cowardice, regret, and pain crushing the body,

allowing oneself to cross boundaries, repeatedly moving back and forth in the chasm between morality and reality.

"Gide's Journal" contains the core footnotes of Gide's lifelong creation, spanning significant life stages, using the self as a method,

such candid revelation is truly unique in the entire 20th century literary history:

"I want to express myself in a more neurotic, sharper, and more competent way."

This is a more real and vivid Gide, whose insights into himself and his era are scattered among the fleeting glimpses of morality, freedom, humanity, aesthetics, reading, politics, and desire.

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【Editor's Recommendation】

🔑 The great immoralist Gide, his most controversial life confession: "All detours lead me back to you"

The key to understanding "Strait is the Gate" and "The Immoralist"—does eternal love exist beyond the narrow gate?

His characters in "Strait is the Gate" reach nihility through asceticism, and in "The Immoralist" touch reality through depravity,

while "Strait is the Gate" is his most radical deconstruction of "salvation"—

Gide, in an act of sacrifice, confronts loss, error, and pain; the unbalanced paradox within is the path to self;

"My love for her dominated my entire life,

but it did not stifle any part of my essence, only infused it with conflicting elements."

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📓 Includes selections from "Gide's Journal" spanning 34 years, Gide's "ultimate writing":

gazing at the dizziness of modernity, piecing together the self amidst the fragments of a disordered world

—"If only one work could be preserved, I think it would be my journal."

Selections from his journal spanning significant life stages, from his twenties to his mature fifties,

each page is a slice of the modern person's spiritual crisis,

faithfully recording the nihility, hesitation, desire, and tremor of a generation—

Roland Barthes regarded it as "my primal language," Benjamin praised it as "a model of self-examination"

Sontag reread it repeatedly, "gaining the ultimate intellectual exchange, as if creating alongside Gide."

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📜 A heterodox of literature, a book of awakening that transcends its time: "to go down in history as the corruptor of youth"

Gide's only credo was to refuse to accept any dogma, to tear apart all secondhand truths—

"There is hardly a day I don't question everything."

New language flowed through his throat; Gide's expression of self was always sharp, constantly innovating:

"I have new things to say."

His lifelong pursuit of natural freedom coalesced into passionate spiritual monologues;

the heterodox of his time transcended the era, becoming a pioneer for later generations.

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💜 Designed by renowned designer Xi He, with three gilded edges, cloth-bound hardcover library edition!

105*148 hardcover double cover—a portable pocketbook, can be held with one hand;

the cover design, themed around "imperfection," is filled with the calm of "salvation,"

love is not the arrival of perfection, but the affirmation of imperfection: "The further I am from you, the more I love you."

"Love is not possession, as I had always imagined, but rather loss."

—From then on, only absence was truly present.

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【Recommendations from Famous Critics】

🔥 Forged the soul writing of young Sontag—

"I am again immersed in reading Gide (his journal), he himself is unparalleled.

I should read it slower, and I have to read it over and over again—

I achieved an extremely perfect intellectual exchange with Gide,

for every thought he had, I experienced that corresponding prenatal pain!"

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❤️🔥 André Maurois, master of biographical literature, academician and secretary of the Académie française, commented on Gide:

"His whole life was a long series of engagements and disengagements. The only dogma he consistently adhered to was the refusal to accept any dogma... He only wanted to be an artist, that is, to give perfect form to thought, to be a person whose sole profession was this. The role of the author is to build a dwelling; and the occupant of this dwelling is the reader. Gide was such a person."