André Gide (1869–1951)
Author of The Immoralist
About the Author
Gide, the reflective rebel against bourgeois morality and one of the most important and controversial figures in modern European literature, published his first book anonymously at the age of 18. Gide was born in Paris, the only child of a law professor and a strict Calvinist mother. As a young show more man, he was an ardent member of the symbolist group, but the style of his later work is more in the tradition of classicism. Much of his work is autobiographical, and the story of his youth and early adult years and the discovery of his own sexual tendencies is related in Si le grain ne meurt (If it die . . .) (1926). Corydon (1923) deals with the question of homosexuality openly. Gide's reflections on life and literature are contained in his Journals (1954), which span the years 1889--1949. He was a founder of the influential Nouvelle Revue Francaise, in which the works of many prominent modern European authors appeared, and he remained a director until 1941. He resigned when the journal passed into the hands of the collaborationists. Gide's sympathies with communism prompted him to travel to Russia, where he found the realities of Soviet life less attractive than he had imagined. His accounts of his disillusionment were published as Return from the U.S.S.R. (1937) and Afterthoughts from the U.S.S.R. (1938). Always preoccupied with freedom, a champion of the oppressed and a skeptic, he remained an incredibly youthful spirit. Gide himself classified his fiction into three categories: satirical tales with elements of farce like Les Caves du Vatican (Lafcadio's Adventures) (1914), which he termed soties; ironic stories narrated in the first person like The Immoralist (1902) and Strait Is the Gate (1909), which he called recits; and a more complex narrative related from a multifaceted point of view, which he called a roman (novel). The only example of the last category that he published was The Counterfeiters (1926). Throughout his career, Gide maintained an extensive correspondence with such noted figures as Valery, Claudel, Rilke, and others. In 1947, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by André Gide
Gide. Anthologie de la poésie française (La Pléiade) (1949) — Editor; Preface, some editions — 56 copies
Gide. Romans et récits. Oeuvres lyriques et dramatiques. Tome 1/2 (La Pléiade) (2009) — Author — 7 copies
Nouveaux prétextes : réflexions sur quelques points de littérature et de morale (1911) — Author — 7 copies
Romanzi 6 copies
The Immoralist | Strait is the Gate | The Pastoral Symphony — Author — 5 copies
Gide. Romans et récits. Oeuvres lyriques et dramatiques. Tome 2/2 (La Pléiade) (2009) — Author — 4 copies
Opere 3 copies
The Journals Of Andre Gide : Volume I, 1889-1913; Volume II, 1914-1927; Volume III, 1928-1939; Volume IV, 1939-1949) (1951) 3 copies
André Gide, Jules Romains, Correspondance, 1908-1946. L'individu et l'unanime (1992) — Author — 3 copies
André Gide, Roger Martin du Gard. Correspondance, Tome 1/2 : 1913-1934 et Tome 2/2 : 1935-1951 (1968) — Author — 3 copies
El pensamiento vivo de Montaigne 2 copies
Correspondance: 1893-1938 2 copies
Erzählungen 2 copies
Aus den Tagebüchern 1889 - 1939 2 copies
Oeuvres complètes d'André Gide 2 copies
Gesammelte Werke Bd.1. Autobiographisches. Enth. Stirb und Werde. Tagebuch 1889-1902 (1989) 2 copies
Incontri e pretesti 2 copies
Gertrude 2 copies
Ο Προμηθέας ελεύθερος δεσμώτης 2 copies
El Viaje de Urien 1 copy
Robert - ed. autografada 1 copy
Récits, roman, soties 1 copy
Khung Cửa Hẹp 1 copy
TEZEU DIN FILE DE TOAMNA 1 copy
Tagebcher — Author — 1 copy
Acceptance speech delivered by Anders Österling at the presentation of the Nobel Prize for Literature to André Gide,… (1971) 1 copy
Diarios 1911-1925 1 copy
Les Faux-monnayeurs de André Gide (fiche de lecture et analyse complète de l'oeuvre) (French Edition) (2020) 1 copy
Obras Escogidas 1 copy
Ciasna brama 1 copy
Samtlìche Erzahlungen 1 copy
Pages choisies 1 copy
Il viaggio d'Urien 1 copy
LA LITERATURA COMPROMETIDA 1 copy
1: 1913-1934 1 copy
Numquid et tu? 1 copy
Self portraits 1 copy
Prem Aur Prakash 1 copy
RREFIMI I NJE VAJZE 1 copy
André Gide: Oeuvres majeures: Romans, Nouvelles, Poésie, Cahiers de Voyage, Essais Littéraires &… 1 copy
Οι κιβδηλοοιοί 1 copy
2: 1935-1951 1 copy
L'escola de les dones 1 copy
The notebooks of André Walter. Translated from the French and with an introd. and notes by Wade Baskin. (1968) 1 copy
Caves du Vatican, Les 1 copy
Oedipus and Theseus 1 copy
André Gide, Dorothy Bussy. Correspondance. Tome 3/3 : Janvier 1937 - Janvier 1951 (1982) — Author — 1 copy
Gesammelte Werke, 12 Bde., Bd.4, Autobiographisches, 4. Band: Et nunc manet in te / So sei es oder Die Würfel sind… (1990) 1 copy
Un francâes en la U.R.S.S 1 copy
Falskmyntarna del III 1 copy
Falskmyntarna del I-II 1 copy
Pages from the Journal 1 copy
André Gide, Jacques Copeau. Correspondance. Tome 1/2 : Décembre 1902 - Mars 1913 (1989) — Author — 1 copy
Unknown 1 copy
De nieuwe spijzen 1 copy
The journals of Andrew Gide 1 copy
Poesie 1 copy
A Crime Without A Motive 1 copy
Literatura francesa II: La Sinfonía Pastoral. Los Placeres y los Días. Disraeli. Semmelweiss. La Condición Humana.… (1982) 1 copy
Rencontres 1 copy
André Gide, Henri Ghéon. Correspondance. Tome 1/2 : 1897-1903 et Tome 2/2 : 1904-1944 (1976) — Author — 1 copy
Index des noms et des titres cités dans la correspondance André Gide, Roger Martin du Gard (1971) — Author — 1 copy
Attendu que 1 copy
André Gide, Jacques Copeau. Correspondance. Tome 2/2 : Mars 1913 - Octobre 1949 (1989) — Author — 1 copy
André Gide, Dorothy Bussy. Correspondance, tome 2/3 : Janvier 1925 - Novembre 1936 (1981) — Author — 1 copy
Pântanos 1 copy
Un esprit non prévenu 1 copy
LETTERE AD ANGELA 1986 1 copy
Hyrden 1 copy
Littérature engagée 1 copy
Numquid et tu ?... 1 copy
Gide Et Le Mythe Grec: Suivi De Fragments Du Traite Des Dioscures Et Autres Textes Inedits (Bibliotheque Gidienne)… (2019) 1 copy
Dindiki. 1 copy
Gide André 1 copy
Die Schule der Frauen 1 copy
Prétextes: (suivi de) Nouveaux prétextes: réflexions sur quelques points de littérature et… (1903) — Author — 1 copy
Associated Works
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) — Afterword, some editions — 2,348 copies
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 544 copies
Shakespeare : Oeuvres complètes, tome 2 : Roméo et Juliette (1959) — Translator, some editions; Avant-propos, some editions — 16 copies
Les Pages immortelles : De Montaigne, choisies et expliquées par André Gide (1949) — Préface et anthologie — 10 copies
André Gide's The Immoralist: A Play — Author — 5 copies
Het neusje van de zalm een feestelijke bloemlezing uit Querido's 'vlaggetjesreeks' (1986) — Contributor — 5 copies
Les cahiers de la Petite Dame. Notes pour l'histoire authentique d'André Giide. Tome 2/4 : 1929-1937 (1975) — Contributor — 2 copies
Nouvelles — Translator, some editions — 2 copies
Les cahiers de la Petite Dame : notes pour l'histoire authentique d'Andride. 4, 1945-1951 (1977) — Contributor — 1 copy
Les Cahiers de la Petite Dame: notes pour l'histoire authentique d'André Gide (1976) — Contributor — 1 copy
Les cahiers de la Petite Dame : notes pour l'histoire authentique d'Andride. 1, 1918-1929 (1973) — Contributor — 1 copy
Théâtre complet. Avant-propos d'André Gide (1938) — Foreword, some editions; Translator, some editions — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Gide, André
- Legal name
- Gide, André Paul Guillaume
- Birthdate
- 1869-11-22
- Date of death
- 1951-02-19
- Burial location
- Cimetière de Cuverville, Cuverville, France
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Places of residence
- St Brelades Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands
Normandy, France
Tunis, Tunisia - Education
- Lycée Henri IV, Paris, France
- Occupations
- novelist
essayist - Relationships
- Wharton, Edith (friend)
Schiffrin, Jacques (friend) - Organizations
- La Nouvelle Revue Française, Revue littéraire (Co-fondateur ∙ 1909)
L'Ermitage, Revue littéraire (Collaboration ∙ 1897 ∙ 1906) - Awards and honors
- Nobel Prize (Literature, 1947)
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Reviews
Travels in the Congo by André Gide
A 9 month river and overland trek up one river in the Congo (border of Cameroon and what is now the Central African Republic of the Congo) to Lake Chad and down another to the Cameroon-Nigerian border on the Atlantic in 1924-1925. Part film documentary, part hunting trip, part biological collecting, part investigative work commissioned by the French government AG sucked it up and did what white men used to do back in the day. Went on an extended safari. Describes the weather (heat and tornados) the landscape (rivers, canyons, lakes, mountains), sicknesses, foods, and some of the characters and situations they meet. Would not have been printed today for the condescending attitudes towards the natives but was probably enlightened for its time. AG made numerous complaints about companies and mistreatment of the natives. Not alot of fear of large animals though for sure a fear of fever, tse tses, and malaria.… (more)
½
Charmingly written, but pretty juvenile. The two main characters are doing some long-distance pining, being idealistic (there's religious imagery) and naïve, playing at 'serious' romance, all in all being the immature teenagers they well, are. The novel does not get much beyond this simple portrayal, but it's ok for what it is.
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Statistics
- Works
- 295
- Also by
- 41
- Members
- 14,653
- Popularity
- #1,573
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 181
- ISBNs
- 727
- Languages
- 29
- Favorited
- 43
- Touchstones
- 228
