Andre Gide

Published: April 25, 2023, 4 a.m.

b'Warning: this episode contains discussions of child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised.\\xa0\\nThis week, we tackle the French author Andr\\xe9 Gide, a self-styled "immoralist" who oscillated between an austere Protestantism and a sensualism he associated with the so-called "Orient," and who elevated pederasty above sodomy in a way that helps us understand the often-disfiguring influence of upper-class male sexual desires on the construction of the 20th century gay male identity.\\nPre-order our book in paperback for a free E-book!\\n----more----\\nSOURCES:\\nKadji Amin, Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History, electronic resource, Theory Q (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017)\\nAndre Gide, If It Die . . .: An Autobiography, New Ed edition (New York: Vintage, 2001)\\nAndre Gide, The Counterfeiters (Vintage, 2012)\\nAndre Gide, The Immoralist, trans. Richard Howard, Reissue edition (Vintage, 2014)\\nMary McAuliffe, Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dal\\xed, Simone de Beauvoir, Andr\\xe9 Gide, Sylvia Beach, L\\xe9on Blum, and Their Friends, Illustrated edition (Lanham Boulder New York London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020)\\nGeorge D. Painter, Andre Gide: A Critical Biography (London: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd)\\nEdward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism, Reprint edition (New York: Vintage, 1994).\\nAlan Sheridan, Andr\\xe9 Gide: A Life in the Present (Harvard University Press, 1999)\\nEdmund White, "On the chance that a shepherd boy...,"\\xa0London Review of Books, December 10, 1998, https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v20/n24/edmund-white/on-the-chance-that-a-shepherd-boy.\\nOur intro music is\\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU\'s Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.'