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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Strait Is the Gate by André Gide Strait Is the Gate by André Gide. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 655981326f48f210 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Strait Is the Gate by André Gide. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 65598132680316a1 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Strait is the gate summary. What Does The Bible Mean by the Straight Gate & Narrow Way. Strait is the Gate. Strait is the Gate was his first novel: not that he was any spring chicken, at 40, when he wrote it. The first thought I had about it was that the title is in serious need of retranslation. And what sort of a word is strait anyway? Has it ever been in normal use as a plain adjective in the 99 years since the book was published? Not that I have an immediately better alternative. The reader already can sense that this firm dedication to the narrow, difficult way, with resistance to temptation, can as easily become a matter for pride and piety as humility and holiness. The obvious message of the dangers of piety is pretty clear too. Post a Comment. Saturday, February 23, book review - Strait is the Gate. There is a style of writing that sets up a character to embody an argument as a way of life and Andre Gide delivers a great example of that here. Where there should be happiness and love there is despair and death. Ironically the reason for it is because of a zealous devotion to God. This is a book about the sort of religious devotion that causes people to become martyrs and lose out on happiness because it is somehow sinful to enjoy life. In a nutshell this is a love story about a boy - Jerome - and a girl — Alissa - who grow up to become a man and a woman. See a Problem? 변함없는 사랑은 가능한가? - 좁은문 Strait is the Gate 앙드레 지드 André Gide # 인문학 Humanities. By implication Gide's text had rejected it. It is the story of Jerome, told 13 years later, and of his love as a young adolescent for his cousin Alissa, who turns him down, wastes away, and finally dies. The ambiguities are carefully built up. Gide uses a narrator speaking directly in the first person. His feelings are too involved in the narration for his judgments to be accepted without reflection, however, even now that he is no longer young. It was translated into English by Dorothy Bussy. It probes the complexities and terrors of adolescence and growing up. Based on a Freudian interpretation, the story uses the influences of childhood experience and the misunderstandings that can arise between two people. Strait is the Gate taps the unassuaged memory of Gide's unsuccessful wooing of his cousin between and Much of the story is written as an epistolary novel between the Protagonist Jerome and his love Alissa. It is one of the first of his works to treat the problems of human relationships. The work contrasts the yearning toward asceticism and self-sacrifice with the need for sensual exploration as a young woman struggles with conflicting feelings about the man who wants to marry her. Strait Is the Gate. Info Print Cite. Submit Feedback. Thank you for your feedback. Strait Is the Gate by André Gide. Comments by Bob Corbett February 2014. The story is narrated by Jerome Palissier, but it turns out to actually be more about his beloved, Alissa, than about him, and about the nature of their relationship. At the same time there is a much larger frame of meaning that is going on in the novel. The Bucolin family of southern France has three children, Robert, a bit of a loser of a fellow, Juliette, a very beautiful girl about the same age as Jerome, and her older sister Alissa. In the early part of the novel we follow the four children primarily as they grow up and are very close. They are first cousins as well. Early on Jerome falls madly in love with Alissa, yet unbeknownst to him, Juliette loves him. Also early on the Lucile Bucolin, the mother of the girls, runs off and leaves their father with the three children. She is a spirited and beautiful woman from Martinique, and not cut out for the sober domesticated wife of the Bucolins. This abandonment of the children and betrayal of their father has a life-long impact on Alissa and is the driving event in shaping her future actions. As the children grow into young adulthood we learn from our narrator, Jerome, that he is madly in love with Alissa, and that many in the family just sort of expect these two will marry. He doesn�t realize that Juliette, who, while not his beloved, is a very dear cousin to him, is in love with him. However, Alissa does know, and behaves with careful propriety when with Jerome. Jerome and Alissa seem to be quite intellectually oriented, which Juliette is not, and much of the joy the between Jerome and Alissa centers on intellectual themes and literature, poetry and other books. Nonetheless, Alissa is quite aware of Juliette�s love of Jerome, though Jerome has no idea. As they grow up he is trying to get his courage up to ask Alissa to at least be engaged to him, even though he plans to go away for university and they wouldn�t marry for some years. He moves closer and closer to popping the question, but both Alissa and Juliette are very nervous about it, Alissa since she knows how much Juliette loves him, and also knows, without his every having explicitly declared it, that he expects Alissa will be his love. Alissa has been deeply affected by her mother�s desertion of the family and infidelity to their father. Quietly, without even Jerome knowing, she has turned to religion and has been deeply influenced by Pascal and his version of Jansenism which runs through his works. This is a strict doctrine which in its influence on Alissa emphasizes original sin and the basic depravity of human beings. She embraces the notion that humans require the grace of God to be saved, and that the individual�s fate is predestined. Without anyone knowing, including Jerome and Juliette, she realizes she cannot bask in the love of Jerome, but must only love God in this ultimate way. In the early days she does know of her sister�s love of Jerome and wants to step aside so that they will marry. However, the family arranges a marriage for Juliette to a decent man who is not only older than her, but whom she doesn�t love. The suitor pushes his case and Juliette�s father agrees. Much to her devastation, she is married to the suitor. Now Alissa is in a more difficult situation. She can�t any longer simply be the martyr giving up her beloved for her sister, but she increasingly feels she must make a choice to either love God or to love Jerome, but in her Pascal/Jansenistic influences she believes she can�t both adequately love God and Jerome in the same way. Jerome knows nothing of this inner life of Alissa, and can�t really figure out what is going on with her and why she can�t just return his love which he does show passionately, and she appears to love him as well. At the same time, it is important to note that he seems much more in love with the ideal image he has created of Alissa than the troubled Alissa whom he should know so well. This gap in his understanding is partly his own idealization of Alissa, and her partly careful deception of him about her inner life struggles which she never reveals. As they grow older, and especially after Juliette settles in with her new husband and comes to love him and their growing batch of children, the difficulties with the love affair between Jerome and Alissa becomes more and more difficult for them to understand. Jerome can�t imagine why Alissa is so resistant of at least making plans for marriage, especially since she constantly professes her profound love of him.

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