In one work by this author, the title character murders Amedee Fleurissoire after discovering that h
In one work by this author, the title character murders Amedee Fleurissoire after discovering that he and Julius de Baraglioul have the same father. In another of this author's novels, a schoolboy dies during an initiation for a secret society in which he has to shoot himself with a blank bullet but the gun is accidentally filled with a live cartridge. In another novel Gertrude gets pneumonia from jumping into an icy river after a surgery restores her eyesight, while another of his characters does not punish Moktir for stealing his wife's sewing scissors. Along with The Pastoral Symphony, he wrote about Jerome and Alyssa making a pact of eternal love as ten-year-olds in his novel Strait is the Gate. This author wrote about Marcelline who dies of tuberculosis in Algeria while her husband Michel pursues Arab boys. For 10 points, name this French author who wrote The Counterfeiters and The Immoralist.
In one work by this author, the title character murders Amedee Fleurissoire after discovering that he and Julius de Baraglioul have the same father.
Andre Gide