RETURN FROM THE U. S. S. R.—André Gide—Knopf ($1). Like Thomas Mann for Germany, like José Ortega y Gasset for Spain, André Gide speaks for a living part of his nation, and speaks to the world. French ...
WHO WAS THE GREATEST FRENCH POET of the nineteenth century? André Gide’s immortal comment—”Victor Hugo, alas!”—is as true today as it was when Gide wrote it in a letter to Paul Valéry almost a century ...
When Britain’s Eighth Army entered Tunis in May 1943, a gaunt, saturnine figure, who looked like an unshaved cardinal, popped out of a hideout in the Italian quarter. He was France’s most discussed, ...
The Swedish Royal Academy's decision to award the 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature to Andre Gide (1869-1951) was revolutionary. Never before had an openly homosexual author been given that prize. Gide ...
Throughout his life, André Gide was haunted by questions of a religious and moral nature. When he published "Les Nourritures terrestres" (English: "The Fruits of the Earth") in 1897, success opened ...
From Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life, an improvisation on the literary canon, which was published in August by Soft Skull Press. i. The dream is to create a… ...
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