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André Gide and Curiosity
Victoria Reid
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2009. 322 pp. (Faux Titre 340)
ISBN: 978-90-420-2726-8 Paper
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This comprehensive exploration of curiosity in the fiction and
life-writing of André Gide (1869-1951) is an important modernist
contribution to the field of curiosity in literature and cultural
studies more broadly. Curiosity was a credo for Gide. By observing the
world and then manifesting in writing these observations, he
stimulates the curiosity of readers, conceived as virtual conduits of
a curiosity once his own. Using a thematic structure of sexual,
scientific and writerly curiosity, this volume identifies processes of
curiosity in the life-writing (including the travel-writing) which
illuminate processes in the fiction, and vice versa. Theories of
fetishism, gender and sexuality are applied to Gide's corpus to
illustrate his championing of a masculine curiosity of enlightenment
and adventure over a feminised 'curiosité-défaillance' of disobedience
and harm, and to explore objects eliciting his incuriosity. Gide's
creativity is nourished by his curiosity, as close readings of his
work informed by Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic writing on
epistemophilia reveal. Curiosity is a rewarding, non-reductionist
perspective from which the exceptional variety of Gide's subject
matter, style and genre can be more coherently understood. Research
draws principally on the six Pléiade volumes of Gide's oeuvre,
published 1996-2009.
Victoria Reid has a BA in French and German from Worcester College,
Oxford (2000), an MSc in EU Policy-Making from London School of
Economics (2001) and a PhD in French Studies from the University of
Reading (2005). She is currently Lecturer in French at the Unversity
of Glasgow.
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