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The narrative takes the form of a friend's account of a man's confessional story, told to close companions who travel to hear him on his sunlit terrace. He recounts a profound personal change: a marriage and conventional piety give way after travels and a renewed attention to bodily experience, leading him to reject prior moral constraints and devote himself increasingly to his own impulses. Set against a luminous, almost desert landscape and framed by the friends' uneasy witness, the account probes desire, selfhood, and the ethical ambiguity of liberation while the narrator withholds judgement and leaves questions unresolved.

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Title: L'immoraliste

Author: André Gide

Release date: February 27, 2024 [eBook #73058]

Language: French

Original publication: Paris: Mercure de France, 1928

Credits: www.ebookgratuits.com and Laurent Vogel (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)

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ANDRÉ GIDE

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L’IMMORALISTE

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MERCVRE DE FRANCE
XXVI, RVE DE CONDÉ, XXVI

MCMXXVIII

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