Corydon

By André Gide

Book Overview

In 1907 Andre Gide began work on a series of Socratic dialogues on the subject of homosexuality and its place in society. These were published piecemeal, without the author's name, in private editions of twelve copies (1911) and twenty-one copies (1920) before a signed, commercial edition finally appeared in France in 1924. In his preface to the first American edition--published in 1950, the year before his death--Gide says: "Corydon remains in my opinion the most important of my books."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374130124
• ISBN13: 9780374130121
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A quick amusing read

A quick, amusing read, but not Gide's best work. The work doesn't have the same subjective character studies I've grown to love, but rather reads like a scientific paper written by a skeptical college student. Nonetheless, it is a landmark work in gay literature and so I gave it 4 stars instead of the 3 it actually earned.