André Gide (1869–1951)

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1. André Gide

   Author of The Immoralist, Strait is the Gate, La Symphonie Pastorale

2. Jean-Paul Sartre

   Author of Nausea, The Age of Reason, The Wall: And Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook)

3. Gustave Flaubert

   Author of Sentimental Education, Three Tales, Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

4. Honoré de Balzac

   Author of Eugénie Grandet, Lost Illusions, The Country Doctor

5. Jean Genet

   Author of Our Lady of the Flowers, Funeral Rites, The Screens

6. Albert Camus

   Author of The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, Lyrical and Critical Essays

7. Thomas Mann

   Author of Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian LeverKuhn as told by a friend, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years, Royal Highness

8. Émile Zola

   Author of Germinal, Nana, L'Assommoir

9. Stendhal

   Author of The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma, Love

10. Christopher Isherwood

    Author of Goodbye to Berlin, Mr. Norris Changes Trains, Christopher and His Kind

11. André Malraux

    Author of Man's Fate, Man's Hope, Anti-Memoirs

12. Jean Cocteau

    Author of Les enfants terribles, Opium, The White Book (Le Livre Blanc)

13. François Mauriac

    Author of Thérèse Desqueyroux, The Knot of Vipers, The Woman of the Pharisees

14. Guy de Maupassant

    Author of Bel-Ami, Une vie, The Horla

15. Edmund White

    Author of A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty, The Farewell Symphony

16. Italo Svevo

    Author of Confessions of Zeno, As a Man Grows Older, Una vita

17. Joris-Karl Huysmans

    Author of Against the Grain, The Damned (La-Bas) (Penguin Classics)

18. Denis Diderot

    Author of Jacques the Fatalist, The Nun, Le Neveu de Rameau

19. Robert Musil

    Author of The Confusions of Young Törless, Diaries : Robert Musil 1899-1942, Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

20. André Breton

    Author of Nadja, Anthology of Black Humor, What Is Surrealism?