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Jérôme looks back on his love for Alissa and the religious ideal through which she understands their relationship. Affection and longing draw them together, while Alissa’s desire for spiritual perfection leads her to question the happiness they might share.
Gide develops the story through memory, correspondence and the tensions between human attachment and self-denial. The novel’s restrained narrative gradually exposes the consequences of pursuing an ideal that cannot easily accommodate ordinary life. This complete 1924 English edition preserves Dorothy Bussy’s translation of the original 1909 French work.