Urien's voyage
By: André Gide ; translated from the French and with an introduction and notes by Wade Baskin.
Contributors: Baskin, Wade.
Series: Peter Owen modern classics
Publisher: Peter Owen; Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; Chester Springs, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Description: "Urien's Voyage is an allegorical account of a sea voyage. From the stagnant, teeming waters of the Sargasso to the frozen Arctic, Gide charts in prose the fantastic journey of the Orion and the sexual and moral transformations of those aboard. The temptations, suffering and surroundings of Urien and his companions are described with an extraordinary profusion of detail, yet the pilgrims can never be sure of the reality of their experiences." "The eponymous Urien is, we now know, the young Andre Gide himself. Written under the spell of the great French Symbolist poet Mallarme, the novel is an illustration of both the techniques and the aesthetic credo of the Symbolist movement." "Although written early in the career of this key French thinker and Nobel Prize-Winner, Urien's Voyage is now regarded as a significant work, articulating the powerful tension between sexuality and morality that would preoccupy Gide in his better-known later novels."--BOOK JACKET.