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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Fruits Of The Earth
• Author: Andre Gide
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780099437833
• ISBN: 009943783X
• ID: 04491711
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 164 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 143 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. March 2002

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