The Immoralist (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Andre Gide
- First Published: 1902
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1900
- Setting: Northern Africa, Italy, France, and Switzerland
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Marriage, Historians, Death or dying, Ethics, Italy or Italians, Tuberculosis, Switzerland or Swiss people, Hedonism, Miscarriage
- Locales: Africa, France, Italy, Switzerland
Characters Discussed
Michel (mee-SHEHL), the narrator, a twenty-four-year-old archaeologist, brought up in a highly puritanical atmosphere. The product of an exclusively scholastic and bookish education, he marries Marceline only to please his dying father, without really knowing what he is doing. During his honeymoon in North Africa, he contracts tuberculosis. After having this brush with death, he recovers and sets out to mount an all-out war against anything that could threaten his health. He also starts experiencing all kinds of previously unsuspected physical joys and...
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