Chapter 30 About Gide's Autobiography

About Gide's Autobiography Last winter, "Langton House", which is famous for publishing literary and artistic works in the United States, published the French The English translation of Gide's autobiography, which is still written by the famous Ms. Bai Sai, is a limited edition, only Fifteen hundred copies were printed, and it was declared that the original edition would be destroyed after printing and would never be reprinted.Not too expensive Expensive, five dollars each.Immediately after I saw the ad in the New York Times Book Review I entrusted a bookstore to buy it, and after more than a month, I replied that it was sold out; I wrote again, and I said that I

If you need this book, you can pay a higher price, but the reply still says that there is no way.i despair up. The original title of Gide's autobiography is "If this seed does not die..." (Si le grain ne meurt), the English translation is titled If ii die.Reality There is actually no difference, because the title of the book is taken from the Bible verses of the Gospel of John, to the effect: "A Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains a single grain; but if it dies, it produces many grains." Gide loves to quote the Bible in his writings, and these words are from Dostoevsky's famous book "Ka

The proverbs often used by the protagonist in "Brothers Ramazov", Gide is a Dostoevsky researcher, so Unknowingly adopted the title of this book.Regarding this meaning, he once said in his autobiography: A grain of wheat must Must die to bear fruit, and man must taste sin before reaching the higher realms And the taste of pleasure. As this sentence indicates, Gide's autobiography is a confession of his early life, especially Regarding the conflict between the spirit and the flesh, it also involves the issue of homosexuality.Gide was a Protestant by birth writer, all his works can be said to be in the performance of the conflict between good and evil, even in recent years

Orientation is nothing more than thinking of walking on the path of truth and goodness for human beings.Gide, in this autobiography, says And the education he received from his mother and uncle in his early years, and his love affair with his cousin, the first special State travel, Bill Louie's friendship, and his first foray into the literary world.The most important of these, It is his life in Africa, because that is where the novel Llmmora-lste comes from. He considers himself homosexual and frankly describes his sex life in the book. Like many Gide readers, I am very curious about this excavator of the human spirit.

I know his attitude towards his early sinful life, but since he can't buy the original book, he can only It's okay to give up.I recently read the American weekly "Saturday Literary Review", and realized that not only did I never buy As far as this book is concerned, even many American readers have never had this blessing, because six weeks after the book was published, It was reported to the court by the New York Society for the Maintenance of Morals, who thought the book was indecent. Christopher Morley speaks out in this week's magazine, criticizing New York's decency

The behavior of maintaining the meeting is ridiculous.It was shameful revenge, he said, because the publication of Gide's autobiography The publisher "Langton Books" published the American edition of Joyce's "Ulysses" the year before last. The book was originally banned in the United States, but the New York court ruled that there is no need to ban the book at present, so the etiquette is maintained. The meeting failed, and this time it seized the obscene part of Gide's autobiography and took revenge on "Langton Bookstore". Moulay added that Gide's autobiography is a noble work, the spirit and body of a great writer.

Confessions of life are by no means obscene books.He doesn't believe that fifteen hundred copies of this work can threaten American morality.What is especially ridiculous is that one of the important sponsors of the New York Weathering Maintenance Association, (Referring to Morgan's), it is a world-renowned collector of editions.He probably already has it on his bookshelf This work, and I am afraid that there is also Gide's autographed copy, but here comes such a set.