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Arabesques
Robert Dessaix
Picador
Travel
One Sunday in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer André Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement he felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, Dessaix set off to recapture what it was that once drew him so strongly to this enigmatic figure. From Lisbon to the edge of the Sahara, from Paris to the south of France and Algiers, Dessaix visits the places where the Nobel Prize-winning author, in ways still scandalous to modern sensibilities, lived out his unconventional ideas about love, marriage, sexuality and religion. Part travel memoir and part meditation on such diverse subjects as why we travel, growing old, illicit passions, and the essence of Protestantism.
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