Strait is the gate

de André Gide, Dorothy Bussy

"The work contrasts the yearning toward asceticism and self-sacrifice with the need for sensual exploration as a young woman struggles with conflicting feelings about the man who wants to marry her". (Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, accessed online 11/14/2019) The story is told in a combination of first-person narration, epistolary conversations, and diary entries.