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Reading group live chat: John Crace on Andre Gide
Posted by: judyfxfsi (121.205.214.---)
Date: February 10, 2013 12:57AM

While a great deal of Nike Air Max Shoes Outlet incisive, intelligent and damn-near impenatrable criticism has been written about Andre Gide's Immoralist, the article that seems to have most influenced contributors to this month's Reading Group is actually a pastiche of the book - John Crace's digested read.The piece doesn't exactly take Gide seriously: "I was not concerned by Marceline's fatigue - why should I have been? - for I was burdened with the seriousness of my Nietzschean crusade to reject my duty-bound bourgeois friends and live my life in the moment ... It was after Nike Shox Shoes Outlet delivering a derivative lecture on how Culture kills Life that I met Menalque, himself an obvious Nietzschean avatar."But as readers such as everythingsperfect have pointed out, John Crace's take is accurate, as well as funny. Marcel is a solipsist. He is a bit daft ... Nike Shox 2013 Or at least, that's one way of seeing him. It will be fascinating to find out what John Crace himself thinks about that; whether he is simply retelling the book as he sees it, or skewing his reading for comic effect. You can ask him all about it. I'm hoping he'll also be able to answer questions about the Digested Pacific Outfitters | tiffany jewelry-rf37 Read in general. And how much writing the column has changed his view of literature more widely ...John will be here from 1pm tomorrow, but feel free to start posting your questions in the thread below right away.




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