Amyntas

Gide's journal of his five year exodus through the exotic cultures of Tunis and Algiers at the turn of the 20th century can only be compared to the senuous language of JUSTINE, the first book of the classic Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell. This small, delightful book of 159 pages, unfolds to the world that underlies the North Africa today, a century later. According to the translator,Gide,immediately after writing AMYNTAS, began writing CORYDON, viewed by many as his masterpiece, which dwelt on the place of homosexuality in society and on the nature of human sexuality itself. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947, Gide's notations are four separate texts documented by year and place. Translation from the original French is done by Richard Howard, a Pulitzer Prize winner and noted translator.