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Paperback. One of France's greatest modern writers examines his fascination with true crime and justice Translator(s): Ivry, Benjamin. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 140 x 202 x 14. Weight in Grams: 238.
André Gide's lifelong fascination with the conventions of society led naturally to a strong interest in France's judicial system. At the age of sixty Gide published Judge Not, a collection of writings detailing his experiences with the law as well as his thoughts on truth, justice, and judgment. Gide writes about his experience as a juror in several trials, including that of an arsonist, and he analyzes two famous crimes of his day: Marcel Redureau, a docile fifteen-year-old vineyard laborer who violently murdered his employer's family, and the respected Monnier family's confinement of their daughter, Blanche.
André Gide's lifelong fascination with the conventions of society led naturally to a strong interest in France's judicial system. At the age of sixty Gide published Judge Not, a collection of writings detailing his experiences with the law as well as his thoughts on truth, justice, and judgment. Gide writes about his experience as a juror in several trials, including that of an arsonist, and he analyzes two famous crimes of his day: Marcel Redureau, a docile fifteen-year-old vineyard laborer who violently murdered his employer's family, and the respected Monnier family's confinement of their daughter, Blanche.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077784
SKU
V9780252077784
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About André Gide
André Gide (1869–1951) is one of the giants of twentieth-century literature, honored for his plays, fiction, and criticism, as well as his extraordinary Journals. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1947. Benjamin Ivry's translations from the French include Vanished Splendors: The Memoirs of Balthus, Jules Verne's Magellania, Witold Gombrowicz's A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen ... Read more
Reviews for Judge Not
Finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, 2003. "Benjamin Ivry has translated and edited Gide's treatise on justice and depravity with admirable skill and exacting scholarship. Gide compiled this dossier of source material with unblinking honesty (or curiosity, as he called it) and subjected it to the moral acuity for which his fiction is famous."
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