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A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle''s house in the Normandy countryside, where the whole world seems ''steeped in azure''. There he falls deeply in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually Alissa becomes convinced that Jerome''s love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation, she decides to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself - in both mind and body.

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.

Strait is the Gate

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    A Paperback / softback by André Gide, Dorothy Bussy

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/02/2001
      ISBN13: 9780141185248, 978-0141185248
      ISBN10: 0141185244

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle''s house in the Normandy countryside, where the whole world seems ''steeped in azure''. There he falls deeply in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually Alissa becomes convinced that Jerome''s love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation, she decides to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself - in both mind and body.

      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.

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