num_pages: 224
description: 1930. French writer, humanist, and moralist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. Gide's search for self, the underlying theme of his several works, remained essentially religious. Throughout his career Gide used his writings to examine moral questions. He is as well known for his influence as a moralist and as a thinker as for his contributions to literature. In 1893 and 1894 Gide traveled to North Africa, learning different moral and sexual conventions. At Biskra he fell ill and narrowly escaped death. These experiences became the basis for The Immoralist, one of his psychological novels, which is about the destructive force of hedonism and hunger for new experiences.
language: English
title: The Immoralist
titlecomplete: The Immoralist
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Novels, Philosophy, Nobel Prize, LGBT, France, French Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 11678
places: Algeria, Malta, El Djem, Italy, North Africa, Biskra, Tunisia, France, Tunis, Syracuse, Sicily, Sicily, Paris, Italian Alps, Normandy
publisher: Kessinger Pub Co