Marshlands is an anti-novel is a novel that reflects on itself, the act of writing. Indeed the work is a curveball: the narrator tells how he wrote his new book Paludes which features a Tityrus; one living person surrounded by marshes. Its existence is monotonous; the narrator wants to show the mediocrity of people's lives in general, characters enclosed in monotonous and repetitive actions. A hymn to freedom, to rebellion sobering. But Gide shows the reader the difficulty of making others understand the artistic gesture that is doomed to failure, the author himself condemned perpetually writing to escape the daily becomes a prisoner of its ideals, its repetitive. Marshlands is a broad reflection that touches the reader, it is especially written with a virtuoso language and a dark humor to his own maverick author. A work thus outside the box but to better educate the reader: Marshlands is a masterpiece of originality incredibly modern work: highly recommended but informed readers!
