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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with ones freedom - Andre 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.
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with ones freedom - Andre 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.
André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of...
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