André Gide
ASIN: B00EFB8P16
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 104
André Gide is a very famous French author. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. Isabelle was one of his more famous novels and was originally published in 1911. Although this novel was published over 100 years ago, no one in today’s modern world will be confused by the actions and emotions of the characters in the story which are timeless. Certainly the obsessive infatuation of a young man for a beautiful woman, which is the main theme of the book, is a feeling that everyone can relate to.The story begins in the ruins of an old chateau in Normandy. The narrator of the story, Gérard Lacase, is showing some friends around the property where he was a guest many years earlier as a young university student from Paris. The friends see that he is emotional about the place, and they convince him to tell his story. As mentioned, he becomes infatuated with a woman he ...