Corydon
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Book Overview
In 1907 Andre Gide began work on a series of Socratic dialogues on the subject of homosexuality and its place in society. These were published piecemeal, without the author's name, in private editions of twelve copies (1911) and twenty-one copies (1920) before a signed, commercial edition finally appeared in France in 1924. In his preface to the first American edition -- published in 1950, the year before his death -- Gide says: Corydon remains in...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0374517770
ISBN13:9780374517779
Release Date:November 1983
Publisher:Farrar Straus Giroux
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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A quick amusing read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
A quick, amusing read, but not Gide's best work. The work doesn't have the same subjective character studies I've grown to love, but rather reads like a scientific paper written by a skeptical college student. Nonetheless, it is a landmark work in gay literature and so I gave it 4 stars instead of the 3 it actually earned.
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