Alan Sheridan (1934–2015)
Auteur de Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth
A propos de l'auteur
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Œuvres de Alan Sheridan
Ben Jelloun: The Sand Child 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language (1969) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 1,521 exemplaires
Naissance de la clinique (1963) — Traducteur, quelques éditions; Traducteur, quelques éditions — 1,264 exemplaires
L'argent, l'amour et la mort en pays d'oc précédé du roman de l'abbé Fabre : Jean-l'ont-pris (1756) (1980) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 79 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Sheridan-Smith, Alan Mark
- Autres noms
- Sheridan Smith, A. M.
- Date de naissance
- 1934
- Date de décès
- 2015
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Paris, France - Études
- University of Cambridge (St Catharine's College)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Aussi par
- 10
- Membres
- 178
- Popularité
- #120,889
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 15
Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposed to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straitlaced education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and centers on his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, even to the point of owning one's sexual nature, without at the same time betraying one's values. His political activity is informed by the same ethos, as indicated by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR.
Alan Sheridan's biography of Gide narrates his life year-by-year with beautiful style. He distills the significant biographical writings of Gide (Journals, autobiography, etc.) along with his literary work and very event-filled life. The book, at more than seven hundred pages, is nothing if not comprehensive; providing more detail on his subject’s life than you might want to know, unless you love his writing as I do. It is a scholarly work, with all the apparatus that one has come to expect of contemporary biographies – a forest of footnotes, an extensive bibliography and index.
From a relatively early date, Gide discussed his homosexuality in his books and elsewhere with commendable courage. His earlier autobiographical work, If it Die (Si le Grain ne Meurt), describes his African encounters, and in 1925 he published Corydon, an essay on homosexuality and its place in society, written in the form of a Socratic dialogue. Some of his arguments now seem, inevitably, dated, but to have published such a book at all at that time, even in the relatively more civilised culture of France, was brave. I especially appreciated Sheridan's commentaries on Gide's fiction, most of which I have read and love. Like all but the most famous European writers he is not well-enough known or appreciated in the United States.… (plus d'informations)