A lo largo de la historia de la literatura la "Parábola del hijo pródigo", basado en el retrato bíblico del Evangelio según San Lucas (XV:11-32), ha encontrado gran variedad de interpretaciones y desarrollos. "Le retour de l'enfant prodigue" de Gide, escrito en 1907 y publicado en 1909, ha sido considerado como una verdadera obra maestra. Es un relato o poema (así lo consideró él) de una emoción continua, donde se halla el peso del sufrimiento y las ternuras más hondas. Es un libro del "debió ser" no del "es". El autor parte de la mencionada parábola para crear o recrear los personajes y el decorado amplio; nos deja ver las sombras y las voces bíblicas pero el lector sentirá todo el tiempo que está frente a un texto moderno. La edición cuenta con el prólogo elaborado por José Emilio Pacheco.
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André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars. Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straight-laced education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, even to the point of owning one's sexual nature, without at the same time betraying one's values. His political activity is informed by the same ethos, as suggested by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR. Chinese 安德烈·纪德
