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Urien's Voyage

By: André Gide, Wade Baskin - translator
Narrated by: Lori Blanchard
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Summary

Nobel Prize-winning writer André Gide marks his voyage toward self-discovery in this imaginative allegorical work. 

When Urien and his sailing companions begin their voyage, it is to places unknown and, perhaps, only dreamed. This allegorical masterpiece from André Gide, a key figure of French letters, deftly illustrates the techniques and doctrine of the Symbolist movement - and the dual nature of Gide’s own psyche. Written at a crucial time in his artistic development, this imaginative work signals his gradual abandonment of acetic celibacy toward an embrace of pleasure and carnal desires, revealing a Gide more transparent in this early work than in his mature writings. 

Translator and scholar Wade Baskin annotates the work, connecting Gide’s life and bibliography to the text.

©1964 Philosophical Library (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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Slim Fantasy

Not much of plot or character on this fantasy travelogue. Some nice poetic language in describing light and water. Narrator has a consistent fail in continued mispronunciation of author's name.

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