Judge Not
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Published:21st Jul '10
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One of France's greatest modern writers examines his fascination with true crime and justice
André Gide's lifelong fascination with the conventions of society led naturally to a strong interest in France's judicial system. At the age of sixty Gide published Judge Not, a collection of writings detailing his experiences with the law as well as his thoughts on truth, justice, and judgment. Gide writes about his experience as a juror in several trials, including that of an arsonist, and he analyzes two famous crimes of his day: Marcel Redureau, a docile fifteen-year-old vineyard laborer who violently murdered his employer's family, and the respected Monnier family's confinement of their daughter, Blanche.
Finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, 2003.
"Benjamin Ivry has translated and edited Gide's treatise on justice and depravity with admirable skill and exacting scholarship. Gide compiled this dossier of source material with unblinking honesty (or curiosity, as he called it) and subjected it to the moral acuity for which his fiction is famous."--Guy Davenport, author of Da Vinci's Bicycle: Ten Stories
"An indispensable item in the Gidean panoply, which Mr. Ivry has translated acutely and prefaced quite acrobatically. How clear it becomes, with each 'new' text of Gide's in English (but it was anything but clandestine in the French so many decades back) that a 'free mind' involves compelling responsibilities, here set forth with compulsive attention to principle and detail."--Richard Howard, translator of works by Gide, Camus, St.-Exupéry, Baudelaire, Cocteau, and others
- Runner-up for <DIV>Finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, 2003.</DIV> 2003
ISBN: 9780252077784
Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 15mm
Weight: 227g
200 pages