ISBN: 9780141182995

Published: November 2001

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Page Extent: 144

Format: Paperback

RRP 250.00

The Immoralist

Name: The Immoralist - Penguin Random House South Africa
SKU: 9780141182995
Price: 250.00 ZAR
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Andre Gide, Alan Sheridan, David Watson

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'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - André Gide Michel had been a blindfold scholar until, newly married, he contracted tuberculosis. His will to recover brings self-discovery and the growing desire to rebel against his background of culture, decency and morality. But the freedom from constraints that Michel finds on his restless travels is won at great cost. And freedom itself, he finds, can be a burden. Gide's novel examines the inevitable conflicts that arise when a pleasure seeker challenges conventional society and, without moralizing, it raises complex issues involving the extent of personal responsibility.

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André Gide

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Alan Sheridan

Alan Sheridan is the author of Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth. He has also translated over 50 books, including works by Sartre, Lacan, and Foucault.

David Watson

Watson, a visiting professor at Fuller Theological Seminary and a canon in the Anglican Church, has a world-wide ministry of evangelism and renewal with student and lay groups and among British political leaders in Parliament. He is also the author of several other books, including I Believe in Evangelism, I Believe in the Church, Is Anyone There? How to Find God, How to Win the War, and One in the Spirit.

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