La symphonie pastorale

A bit disappointing. Gide sets up an interesting moral quandary -- what's a devout vicar, husband and father, to do when he finds out he's attracted to a blind adolescent he's adopted? Gide follows his main character along a journey of ethical questions and pseudo-ethical justifications, but he

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does not maintain his momentum: instead of continuing to build on this structure, he settles for what I thought was a cheap cop-out. Two and a half stars, because the ending to a solid buildup could have been much more satisfying.

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