{"product_id":"153111","title":"Food on Earth ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQt5mXP1TRJ6RkygmL8iPr.png?v=1764956761\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Food on Earth \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Nathaniel, what is within you\u003cbr\u003e “Burn all the books.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From Martin du Gard to Camus and Sartre\u003cbr\u003e A work that has shaken the souls of almost every generation since Gide\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gide, a young man who suffered from a nervous breakdown due to strict religious upbringing.\u003cbr\u003e His journey to Africa led him to the realization that the way to live was to break free from all restraints and enjoy intense vitality.\u003cbr\u003e The work that Gide wrote during this period is “The Food of the Earth.”\u003cbr\u003e The characteristic of Gide's literature, which seeks to fully enjoy the joys life offers, began with this book. \u003cbr\u003eGide's appeal to break free from everything that was attached to him had an explosive response in the post-war generation.\u003cbr\u003e Although \"The Bread of the Earth\" sold only about 500 copies in the ten years after its publication, it was later rediscovered by the public and became one of Gide's most beloved works.\u003cbr\u003e Gide's powerful defense of ontological 'nakedness' still evokes something in the hearts of young people who are still bound by something, and is read across time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNobel Prize-winning author\u003cbr\u003e Recommended Readings from Seoul National University and Yonsei University\u003cbr\u003e 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, by Peter Boxall\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Author's Preface to the 1927 Edition\u003cbr\u003e introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Commentary on the work\u003cbr\u003e André Gide Chronology\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate4761\/MidCate001\/476008137.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eAfter you read my story, throw this book away—and go outside.\u003cbr\u003e I hope this book will inspire you to go out—to escape from your city, your home, your room, your thoughts, wherever that may be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.14\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While others were publishing their works or working, I spent three years traveling, forgetting everything I had learned in my head.\u003cbr\u003e The task of unlearning what I had learned was slow and difficult.\u003cbr\u003e But it was more beneficial to me than all the knowledge that was forced upon people, and was truly the beginning of education.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.17~18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Importance' should be in your eyes, not in things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.20\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen you open and close books, seeking more revelations than you have ever received, and are still unsatisfied and waiting for something, when you cannot help feeling empty at night and your passion is about to turn to sadness, I want to be by your side.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nathanael, burn all the books within you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.33\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is not enough to just read in a book that the sand on the beach is soft.\u003cbr\u003e My bare feet want to feel it.\u003cbr\u003e Any knowledge that is not preceded by the senses is of no use to me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nathanael, do not stay beside anything that resembles you.\u003cbr\u003e Never 'stay'.\u003cbr\u003e Nathaniel, when your surroundings become like you, or when you become like your surroundings, there is nothing there that will benefit you.\u003cbr\u003e I have to leave there. \u003cbr\u003eThere is nothing more dangerous to you than 'your' house, 'your' room, 'your' past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pleasure! I want to repeat this word over and over again.\u003cbr\u003e I wish this word were synonymous with 'blessed life'.\u003cbr\u003e No, I just wish I could say it's life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through all my open senses I welcomed the presence of the outside world.\u003cbr\u003e Everything was being accepted within me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It pains me that your worship is fixed.\u003cbr\u003e I wish your worship had spread more widely.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.87\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Desire! Desire! What do you want? What do you desire? Don't you know how to be weary?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You cannot imagine, Nathaniel, what will become of this indulgence in light and the sensual ecstasy brought about by this ceaseless heat.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.168\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e“Nathaniel, what is within you\u003cbr\u003e “Burn all the books.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From Martin du Gard to Camus and Sartre\u003cbr\u003e A work that has shaken the souls of almost every generation since Gide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ★Nobel Prize in Literature winner\u003cbr\u003e ★Recommended books from Yonsei University and Seoul National University\u003cbr\u003e ★1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, selected by Peter Boxall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 《The Food of the Earth》 is the masterpiece of André Gide, a Nobel Prize winner who had a great influence on later French literary figures, including Sartre and Camus.\u003cbr\u003e This work, which contains the sense of liberation he felt after visiting North Africa in his youth despite receiving an oppressive Puritan education, is an artistic collection of prose, including diaries, letters, poems, travelogues, and fictional dialogues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Zid keeps shouting about disconnection from everything.\u003cbr\u003e We already have God within us. \u003cbr\u003eBut the comfort of our homes, our fixed past and future, our established books and learning, confine our most precious parts.\u003cbr\u003e So Gide urges us to “escape from your city, from your home, from your room, from your thoughts” and move into a state of “nakedness.”\u003cbr\u003e All of this is because it prevents 'I' from experiencing and sensing things as 'I' myself.\u003cbr\u003e Gide advises us to abandon all established authority and experience life directly and enjoy it.\u003cbr\u003e “It is not enough to just read in a book that the sand on the beach is soft.\u003cbr\u003e “My bare feet want to feel it.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“After you read my story, throw this book away.”\u003cbr\u003e “Nathaniel, burn all the books that are in your possession.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhat do we gain by breaking away from everything that binds us? Desire, pleasure, a sense of unbridled life, sensual ecstasy.\u003cbr\u003e Gide repeatedly urges us to banish the empathy that suppresses the 'self' in our hearts, and to return to the 'self' and go through the process of recreating an unknown life.\u003cbr\u003e A 'blessed life' can only be obtained after that.\u003cbr\u003e Gide tasted a sense of liberation just before he was suffocated by the authoritarian atmosphere in which he had grown up, and he saw “a generation rising, a generation going down” in the rise of sensations, feelings, pleasures, and desires that originate within oneself and do not belong to anyone else.\u003cbr\u003e Zide was a pioneer at the forefront of the new generation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA strong defense of ontological 'nakedness'\u003cbr\u003e A work that transcends time and offers a sense of liberation to young people who are bound by something!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe reason why Gide, after assuming a hypothetical listener named Nathanael, earnestly appeals in poetic language that he hopes that the listener will also feel what he has seen and felt is because he wanted to gift the 'defense of nakedness' to his contemporaries who are in a similar situation to him.\u003cbr\u003e It is 'nakedness' from everything that oppresses us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The characteristic of Gide's literature, which seeks to fully enjoy the joys that life offers, began with \"Bread of the Earth.\"\u003cbr\u003e Gide's appeal to break free from everything that was attached to him had an explosive response in the post-war generation.\u003cbr\u003e Although \"The Bread of the Earth\" sold only about 500 copies in the ten years after its publication, it was later rediscovered by the public and became one of Gide's most beloved works.\u003cbr\u003e Gide's powerful defense of ontological 'nakedness' still evokes something in the hearts of young people who are still bound by something, and is read across time. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n \u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003eGOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDate of issue:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 10, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePage count, weight, size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208 pages | 152*223*20mm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9788931023732\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8931023731 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43894421028906,"sku":"153111","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/2750\/5962\/files\/ced2718b29460e794104ca05c46fc191.jpg?v=1765432995","url":"https:\/\/librairie.coreenne.fr\/en\/products\/153111","provider":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}