On The Contradiction Of Andrei Gide 's Creation

Andre Gide’s creation has the contradiction characteristics. In his life, Gide is sometimes the holy angels, sometimes carnal evils; In his marriage, he is in love with his wife, Madeleine, and indulge in the pleasure of pedophilia and homosexuality; In the creation,he has diversified subjects, both absolute obedience to the religion and traditional morality, and religious free and the "non moralism" esteem.This paper mainly discusses three silly drama Gide ("the narrow gate","moral person" and "Pastoral Symphony"), the long novel "the counterfeiters","Vatican cellars", the essay "the human food" and travels prose world "return visit to the Soviet Union".It analysis the contradictory thoughts of manifestations, causes and Gide’s exploration in the contradictory dilemma road.This paper consists of three parts, the first part mainly discusses the contradiction of Gide’s creative ideas. The author thinks, contradiction of Gide in the creation of specific performance in three aspects:the religious esteem and rebellion, of morality and benevolence and betrayal to sexual love and the spirit of homosexuality. Gide initially Jo Puritanism cults to later suspected rebel; he was from the beginning of the Puritan Ethics strictly adhere to believe in "non moralism"; he is in love with his wife Madeleine and also sees Mark as a gay object; he has a relationship with many men, have fallen in with a prostitute. The second part focuses on the analysis of the background causes of Gide creation contradiction. Combining Gide life characteristics of the times, culture, living environment and personal experience, the paper analysis of the causes of Gide creation contradiction. Gide was born in the first half of the nineteenth Century and the second half of the twentieth Century in the European society. In those times,economy, politics, culture were in turmoil. Social change had an important influence in the generation of young people in Germany as the representative of the ideas, and also in the formation of their moral and religious ideas. At the same time, Gide was born in a rich religious family, parents personality differences, the mother of the Puritan education he was taught, and various bits and pieces of educational experiences of his life and creation has far-reaching influence. The third part describes Gide’s exploration in the contradictory dilemma road. It analysis Gide’s efforts to resolve the contradiction. Gide could not find a way out of the contradiction between soul and body, thus turning themselves and seek artistic work-writing, to complete the dialogue with the self. Another way out is to travel out of the home, get rid of the shackles of the family, to touch with nature, presents a state always on the road.Andre Gide the contradictory creative thought suggests that he is a writer who has always been the pursuit of truth, who has always focused on the spiritual world of the self and been thinking of human destiny. Although his life has been living in the contradictory dilemma, his exploration and effort in the contradictions and difficulties have important significance in the history of literature.