Fruits Of The Earth, Paperback / softback Book

Fruits Of The Earth Paperback / softback

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During the author's travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, who relates his fantastic life story.

But for all his brilliance, Menalcas is only Gide's yesterday self, a discarded wraith who leaves Gide free to stop exalting the ego and embrace bodily and spiritual joy.

Later Fruits of the Earth, written in 1935 during Gide's short-lived spell of communism, reaffirms the doctrine of the earlier book.

But now he sees happiness not as freedom, but a submission to heroism.

In a series of 'Encounters', Gide describes a Negro tramp, a drowned child, a lunatic and other casualties of life.

These reconcile him to suffering, death and religion, causing him to insist that 'today's Utopia' be 'tomorrow's reality'.

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