André Gide and Mirror Stories مقاله

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Introduction When André Gide mentioned his interest in writing a mirror story in his diary, he was not yet twenty-four years old. He had previously used this method in his three earliest works: The Notebooks of André Walter (1957), The Narcissus (1948), and The Immoralist (1948). André Walter, by reflecting his personality in the character of Alain, does the same thing that Gide does in his notebooks. The novel may be more or less a true reflection of the author’s private life, but what makes The Notebooks of André Walter a unique work is that its hero becomes the author. In the discussions that took place about Gide, Claude Martin said: “André Walter, this young writer, ambitiously wanted to create a new life in the body of novel writing. Germaine Brée says in this regard: “The central image of The Narcissus Essay is related to a Greek myth in which the imagination and works of the Symbolists have not been ineffective” (André Gide, 1948, p. We can explain the romantic intention by outlining this form of the story: Presence of the narrator and Madame- The story of Luke and Rachel- The story of the two knights- (Refer to the page image) Luke and Rachel are like Narcissus, the first characters. In fact, the book Fever Pitch is entirely the story of writing a literary work, which is itself called “Fever Pitch. This work is a novel with the characteristics of a diary, in which the narrator recounts to his friend, Hubert, “a summary of the story of Tytire.