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A landmark in world literature, Strait is the Gate describes a love affair between an acutely sensitive boy growing up in Paris and his cousin from the Normandy countryside that erupts into a soul-endangering passion. A devastating exploration of aestheticism taken to extremes, Strait is the Gate is a novel of haunting beauty that stimulates the mind and the emotions.A serious purpose underlies the work of Gide, and it is from such purposes that great novelists arise. - The New York TimesA little masterpiece.... as fine as a spire on Notre Dame. - James Joyce
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Grandes pasiones de la literatura: La puerta estrecha, André Gide
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- 1997
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- Title
- Grandes pasiones de la literatura: La puerta estrecha
- Language
- Spanish
- Authors
- André Gide
- Publisher
- Editorial Lumen, S. A.
- Released
- 1997
- Pages
- 125
- ISBN10
- 8440221266
- ISBN13
- 9788440221261
- Series
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- A landmark in world literature, Strait is the Gate describes a love affair between an acutely sensitive boy growing up in Paris and his cousin from the Normandy countryside that erupts into a soul-endangering passion. A devastating exploration of aestheticism taken to extremes, Strait is the Gate is a novel of haunting beauty that stimulates the mind and the emotions.A serious purpose underlies the work of Gide, and it is from such purposes that great novelists arise. - The New York TimesA little masterpiece.... as fine as a spire on Notre Dame. - James Joyce