If It Die
Book (italiano):
<br>This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate André Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels <b>The Immoralist </b>and <b>The Counterfeiters</b><i>. <br><br></i>Gide led a life of uncompromising self-scrutiny, and his literary works resembled moments of that life. With <b>If It Die</b>, Gide determined to relay without sentiment or embellishment the circumstances of his childhood and the birth of his philosophic wanderings, and in doing so to bring it all to light. Gide's unapologetic account of his awakening homosexual desire and his portrait of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas as they indulged in debauchery in North Africa are thrilling in their frankness and alone make <b>If It Die</b><i> </i>an essential companion to the work of a twentieth-century literary master.<br>
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