André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947).
His political activity is shaped by the same ethos, as indicated by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR. ==Early life== Gide was born in Paris on 22 November 1869, into a middle-class Protestant family.
His father was a Paris University professor of law who died in 1880, Jean Paul Guillaume Gide, and his mother was Juliette Maria Rondeaux.
Wilde had the impression that he had introduced Gide to [but, in fact, Gide had already discovered this on his own. ==The middle years== In 1895, after his mother's death, he married his cousin Madeleine Rondeaux, but the marriage remained unconsummated.
In 1896, he became mayor of La Roque-Baignard, a commune in Normandy. In 1901, Gide rented the property Maderia in St.
In 1896, he became mayor of La Roque-Baignard, a commune in Normandy. In 1901, Gide rented the property Maderia in St.
This period, 1901–07, is commonly seen as a time of apathy and turmoil for him. In 1908, Gide helped found the literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française (The New French Review). During The Great War Gide visited England.
This period, 1901–07, is commonly seen as a time of apathy and turmoil for him. In 1908, Gide helped found the literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française (The New French Review). During The Great War Gide visited England.
The Germans were not all black, and the Allies all white, for Gide. In 1916, Marc Allégret, only 15 years old, became his lover.
In 1918, he met Dorothy Bussy, who was his friend for over thirty years and translated many of his works into English. Gide was close friends with the critic Charles Du Bos.
He has abdicated his intellectual liberty." In the 1920s, Gide became an inspiration for writers such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre.
In 1923, he published a book on Fyodor Dostoyevsky; however, when he defended homosexuality in the public edition of Corydon (1924) he received widespread condemnation.
He later considered this his most important work. In 1923, he sired a daughter, Catherine, by Elisabeth van Rysselberghe, a woman who was much younger than he.
Later he explored their unconsummated marriage in his memoir of Madeleine, Et nunc manet in te. In 1924, he published an autobiography, If it Die...
(French: Si le grain ne meurt). In the same year, he produced the first French language editions of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. After 1925, he began to campaign for more humane conditions for convicted criminals. ==Africa== From July 1926 to May 1927, he traveled through the French Equatorial Africa colony with his lover Marc Allégret.
(French: Si le grain ne meurt). In the same year, he produced the first French language editions of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. After 1925, he began to campaign for more humane conditions for convicted criminals. ==Africa== From July 1926 to May 1927, he traveled through the French Equatorial Africa colony with his lover Marc Allégret.
(French: Si le grain ne meurt). In the same year, he produced the first French language editions of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. After 1925, he began to campaign for more humane conditions for convicted criminals. ==Africa== From July 1926 to May 1927, he traveled through the French Equatorial Africa colony with his lover Marc Allégret.
Du Bos' essay Dialogue avec André Gide was published in 1929.
The book had important influence on anti-colonialism movements in France and helped re-evaluate the impact of colonialism. ==Russia== During the 1930s, he briefly became a communist, or more precisely, a fellow traveler (he never formally joined any communist party).
in 1936. In the 1949 anthology The God That Failed Gide describes his early enthusiasm: ==1930s and 1940s== In 1930 Gide published a book about the Blanche Monnier case called La Séquestrée de Poitiers, changing little but the names of the protagonists.
This characteristic, according to Daniel Moutote in his Cahiers de André Gide essay, is what makes Gide's work 'essentially modern': the 'perpetual renewal of the values by which one lives.'" Gide wrote in his Journal in 1930: "The only drama that really interests me and that I should always be willing to depict anew, is the debate of the individual with whatever keeps him from being authentic, with whatever is opposed to his integrity, to his integration.
His political activity is shaped by the same ethos, as indicated by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR. ==Early life== Gide was born in Paris on 22 November 1869, into a middle-class Protestant family.
in 1936. In the 1949 anthology The God That Failed Gide describes his early enthusiasm: ==1930s and 1940s== In 1930 Gide published a book about the Blanche Monnier case called La Séquestrée de Poitiers, changing little but the names of the protagonists.
She worshiped him, but evidently they no longer had a sexual relationship. Gide's legal wife, Madeleine, died in 1938.
Monnier was a young woman who was kept captive by her own mother for more than 25 years. In 1939, Gide became the first living author to be published in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. He left France for Africa in 1942 and lived in Tunis from December 1942 until it was re-taken by French, British and American forces in May 1943 and he was able to travel to Algiers where he stayed until the end of World War II.
in 1936. In the 1949 anthology The God That Failed Gide describes his early enthusiasm: ==1930s and 1940s== In 1930 Gide published a book about the Blanche Monnier case called La Séquestrée de Poitiers, changing little but the names of the protagonists.
Monnier was a young woman who was kept captive by her own mother for more than 25 years. In 1939, Gide became the first living author to be published in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. He left France for Africa in 1942 and lived in Tunis from December 1942 until it was re-taken by French, British and American forces in May 1943 and he was able to travel to Algiers where he stayed until the end of World War II.
Monnier was a young woman who was kept captive by her own mother for more than 25 years. In 1939, Gide became the first living author to be published in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. He left France for Africa in 1942 and lived in Tunis from December 1942 until it was re-taken by French, British and American forces in May 1943 and he was able to travel to Algiers where he stayed until the end of World War II.
André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947).
In 1947, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight".
in 1936. In the 1949 anthology The God That Failed Gide describes his early enthusiasm: ==1930s and 1940s== In 1930 Gide published a book about the Blanche Monnier case called La Séquestrée de Poitiers, changing little but the names of the protagonists.
André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947).
Gide died in Paris on 19 February 1951.
The Roman Catholic Church placed his works on the Index of Forbidden Books in 1952. ==Gide's life as a writer== Gide's biographer Alan Sheridan summed up Gide's life as a writer and an intellectual: "Gide's fame rested ultimately, of course, on his literary works.
New York:Vangard, 1964.
Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1969. For a detailed bibliography of Gide's writings and works about Gide, see pp.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. ==Further reading== Noel I.
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