Date of Award
1979
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract
Andre Gide's Les Caves du Vatican is a work of complex social criticism. Using primarily the metaphor of the labyrinth and working in satire and comic burlesque, Gide analyzes the structure and role of the Catholic Church, the family, and society in general. He dramatizes multiple forms of hypocrisy and sincerity, lucidity and blindness, freedom and entrapment. He offers no social program, and he does not preach. Rather, he mocks existing structures and raises disturbing questions about social and moral choice.
Extent
66 p.
Recommended Citation
MCLEOD, MARILYN MARGARET, "SOCIAL CRITICISM IN ANDRE GIDE'S "LES CAVES DU VATICAN."" (1979). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1970 - 1979. 735.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_2/735
Identifier
FADT13969
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters