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I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and dread, and the desert, the shabby colonial world, is brought right into your consciousness without being over-explained.

Lawrence Osborne

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Ich habe immer wieder als Teenager Gides 'The Immoralist' gelesen. Ich war davon besessen. Es wird mit einer solchen Einfachheit und Furcht geschrieben, und die Wüste, die schäbige koloniale Welt, wird direkt in Ihr Bewusstsein gebracht, ohne überbewertet zu werden.

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