Corydon

A good hardback edition of Gide's Socratic dialogues on homosexuality

Author

Andre Gide, translated with a preface by Richard Howard

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1983

Printing Details

First edition thus. Hardback in dustwrapper. 21.5 × 14cm, 135pp

André Gide’s Corydon is written in the form of four Socratic dialogues on homosexuality. Published fully in 1924 after years of private, anonymous hesitation, Gide considered it his most important work, aiming to challenge the deep-seated societal prejudices and medical misconceptions of early 20th-century France.