Et nunc manet in te
Et nunc manet in te ( Latin for And now it stays in you ) are André Gide's marriage memories , written in Egypt in 1939 and published in Neuchâtel in 1947 .
The author tells of his love for Madeleine Gide and brings up causes for the failure of the marriage - u. a. his "homosexual tendencies" - to language.
background
Because Gide only mentions first names - Madeleine, Marc, Élisabeth - some data from the author's vita can be helpful for understanding the text.
In 1895 Gide married his two years older cousin Madeleine Rondeaux. In the summer of 1918, Gide was in England with Marc Allégret . Gides and Elisabeth van Rysselberghe's daughter Catherine was born in April 1923. Madeleine dies on April 17, 1938.
content
In his complaint about the dead Madeleine, Gide remembers the “best” and “bitterest” in his marriage to her. It was bitter that Madeleine could not become a mother. In his texts Gide had called her Emmanuèle. In Urian's Journey she was called Ellis, in Paludes Angèle and in the Narrow Gate he called her Alissa. Gide confronts a misunderstanding. When he could not get "sensual satisfaction" in marriage and looked for and found it outside of marriage, Madeleine said he no longer loved her.
The text as a whole is - for all its contradictions - a testimony to his love for Madeleine. Gide writes “I didn't love her anymore either” and in the same breath tells how he developed understanding for Madeleine's stubbornness, endured her sad, premature aging, worried about her ailments and bandaged her open wounds. When he describes her, the word is irrelevant to him, but Madeleine "radiated". Gide admires Madeleine's love of nature and tolerates all of her small weaknesses, which he describes with great perseverance and affection. The author sees the considerable differences between him and her as one of the reasons for his persistent love of her; a cause of his love.
- Intimate diary
This section contains some pages from Gide's diaries from September 15, 1916 to January 26, 1939, which he had not included in the Pléiade edition. They provide information about the "secret drama" of his "life".
On November 21, 1918, he learned from Madeleine's mouth that Madeleine had destroyed all of his letters as soon as Gide had gone to England with Marc. Gide can't get over the loss and cries "incessantly" for a full week. The best that he has written in over thirty years has been destroyed. It dawns on him - he has lost Madeleine and it sounds believable when Gide confesses in this context - to the reader's surprise -: “Every one of my thoughts arose from a relationship with her.” Since Gide Madeleine, the “witness” of his “life “Has lost, he has also lost the zest for life; be confused, desperate, and full of "desolation".
reception
- Claude Martin calls the memories "shocking".
German editions
- source
Hans Hinterhäuser (Ed.), Peter Schnyder (Ed.), Raimund Theis (Ed.): André Gide: Et nunc manet in te . Translated from the French by Maria Schäfer-Rümelin. Pp. 431-477. The basis of the translation was an edition from 1954. With comments by Raimund Theis: “To Et nunc manet in te ”. Pp. 667-668. Collected works in twelve volumes. Volume IV / 4, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Stuttgart 1990. 709 pages, ISBN 3-421-06464-4
- German-language first edition
André Gide: Et nunc manet in te and Intimate Diary. Translated from the French by Maria Schäfer-Rümelin. Issued from the estate. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Stuttgart 1952. 56 pages. Original cardboard tape
- Secondary literature
- Claude Martin: André Gide . Translated from the French by Ingeborg Esterer. Rowohlt 1963 (July 1987 edition). 176 pages, ISBN 3-499-50089-2
Individual evidence
- ^ Dictorum Index
- ↑ Source, p. 665, Note No. 475 by Raimund Theis
- ↑ Source, p. 441, 10th Zvu
- ↑ Source, p. 434, 15. Zvu
- ↑ Source, p. 458, 20. Zvo
- ↑ Source, p. 471, 15. Zvo
- ↑ Martin, pp. 150-152
- ↑ see e.g. B. André Walter's notebooks , Die and become
- ↑ from Immanuel : "God is with us"
- ↑ Source, p. 457, 3. Zvo: Journal 1889 - 1939
- ↑ Source, p. 477, 8. Zvu
- ↑ Source, p. 469, 11. Zvu
- ↑ Martin, p. 141, 23. Zvo
- ↑ Source, p. 6