Fruits of the Earth

Resource type
Author/contributor
Title
Fruits of the Earth
Abstract
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'. --Publisher's description
Place
Toronto
Publisher
McClelland and Stewart
Date
1989
# of Pages
359 pages
Language
English
ISBN
0-7710-9960-6 978-0-7710-9960-1
Extra
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/fruitsofearth0000grov
Citation
Grove, F. P. (1989). Fruits of the Earth. McClelland and Stewart.