On Gide's Promethee: Private Myth and Public Mystification

On Gide's Promethee: Private Myth and Public Mystification

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Author/Contributor(s): Weinberg, Kurt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date: 04/19/2016
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: NEW

Through a careful rendering of the text, deciphering its hidden ironies, Mr. Weinberg sees Prométhée as a modern allegory, a parable wrought of allusions, symbols, and images drawn from classical antiquity and calvinist theology, and a multi-leveled sotie à miroirs.

Originally published in 1972.

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