Reviews for L'Immoraliste

The average rating for L'Immoraliste based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-07-20 00:00:00 Belinda Schuler 5 "satanic, provocative, deceptive" stars !! 5th Favorite Read of 2016 This book mesmerized and shocked me in equal measure. Beautiful in its writing, quiet in its execution, seductive in its message and destructive in its implications. The book begins with a suppressed young dutiful intellectual and ends with a despairing debauched and self-deluded libertine. In between is some of the most exquisite writing and the transformation of a young man from upstanding citizen to a malignant narcissist. The book utilizes the vicissitudes of landscape, weather and nuances of emotions to seduce the reader into rooting for this most hateful of villains and his attempts at self-transformation. We are in North Africa, France, Switzerland and Italy. We are in the heat, windstorms, alpine winters and sensuous springtimes. We are seduced by beauty, attempts at love, philosophical arguments, works of great art and intimate conversation. We are initially excited by his sexual awakening and burgeoning awareness of his own sensual beauty. We are smitten to the periodic devotions to his wife, his superficial helpfulness to those in need, his appreciation of the underdogs of society and his rejection of snobbery and elitism. Then delusion sets in....he mistakes his desires for needs and the most subtle of evils begins to occur. His appreciation for youths turns to taboo encounters of the most predatory kind. He facilitates the underprivileged to turn against each other through the use of trickery and guile so that he can watch like the most selfish of voyeurs. Most cruelly of all he turns on his wife and watches her die while at the same time sucking in all of her beauty, loyalty and kindness to enforce his own life force. In the end he calls on his friends so that he can confess and likely seduce them into offering in their spirits to him like a soul-thirsty incubus. I found this book haunting, sublime and wicked. This book is dangerous in the wrong hands. A disturbing but important experience and a chance to reflect on the self and where one fits on the continuum.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-11-29 00:00:00 Melissa Palumbo (778 From 1001 Books) - L'immoraliste = The Immoralist, André Gide The Immoralist is a novel by André Gide, published in France in 1902. The Immoralist is a recollection of events that Michel narrates to his three visiting friends. One of those friends solicits job search assistance for Michel by including in a letter to Monsieur D. R., President du Conseil, a transcript of Michel's first-person account. Important points of Michel's story are his recovery from tuberculosis; his attraction to a series of Arab boys and to his estate caretaker's son, and the evolution of a new perspective on life and society. Through his journey, Michel finds a kindred spirit in the rebellious Menalque. تاریخ نخستین خوانش: ماه فوریه سال 2005میلادی عنوان: رذل (ضد اخلاق 1902میلادی)، نویسنده: آندره ژید، مترجم: علی پاک بین؛ تهران، انتشارات جامی، 1383، در 197ص، چاپ سوم 1388، شابک 9789647468381؛ چاپ چهارم 1392؛ در 155ص؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان فرانسوی - سده 20م این رمان در فهرست 1001کتاب که باید پیش از مرگ بخوانید و همچنین در لیست روزنامه گاردین (1000رمان که هر شخص باید بخواند) قرار دارد؛ داستان اعتراف گونه ی مردی، که در جستجوی سرشت خویش است؛ شخصیت اصلی داستان، «میشل»، بی تجربه ی عشق، و تنها برای دلخواسته ی پدرش، با دختری مهربان، به نام «مارسلین» ازدواج میکند؛ «میشل» در سفر «ماه عسل» به «تونس»، بیمار میشود، و پس از بهبودی خود، با پسری جوان و عرب، آشنا میگردد، که سلامتی و زیبایی اش، بسیار برای او دلپسند است؛ «میشل» پس از این رویداد، میخواهد، به آزادی خویش در زندگی، بیشتر بها دهد، و برای خواسته های خویش، زندگی کند؛ اما او علاوه بر این، درمییابد که آزادی، میتواند به باری بر روی دوش نیز، بدل شود؛ رمان «رذل»، اثری بسیار به یاد ماندنی است، که ردپای سبک نگارشِ استادانه، ناب، و سادگی نوشته های «ژید»، در جای جای آن به دیده مینشیند نقل از متن: «بله، برادر عزیزم، حدس تو درست است، میشل سرگذشت خود را برای ما بیان کرد؛ تو از من خواهش کردی که آن را برای تو بنویسم، منهم قول دادم، و اکنون به وعده ی خود وفا می‌کنم، ولی در موقع فرستادن آن، دچار تردید می‌شوم، زیرا هر آن‌چه آن را بیشتر می‌خوانم، در نظرم زشت‌تر و موحش‌تر جلوه می‌‌کند؛ آه نمی‌دانم درباره ی دوستان چه فکری خواهی کرد؟ وانگهی خودم چه می‌اندیشم؟ آیا آن را به سادگی تکذیب کنم؟»؛ پایان نقل از متن تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 10/09/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی