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 — 57 copies
Nouveaux prétextes : réflexions sur quelques points de littérature et de morale (1911) — Author — 7 copies
Gide. Romans et récits. Oeuvres lyriques et dramatiques. Tome 1/2 (La Pléiade) (2009) — 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
André Gide, Roger Martin du Gard. Correspondance, Tome 1/2 : 1913-1934 et Tome 2/2 : 1935-1951 (1968) — Author — 3 copies
Opere 3 copies
André Gide, Jules Romains, Correspondance, 1908-1946. L'individu et l'unanime (1992) — Author — 3 copies
The Journals of Andre Gide: Vol 2 3 copies
Gertrude 3 copies
L'école des femmes suivi de Robert 2 copies
Correspondance: 1893-1938 2 copies
Aus den Tagebüchern 1889 - 1939 2 copies
Erzählungen 2 copies
Oeuvres complètes d'André Gide 2 copies
Numquid et tu? 2 copies
Gesammelte Werke Bd.1. Autobiographisches. Enth. Stirb und Werde. Tagebuch 1889-1902 (1989) 2 copies
Gide André 2 copies
Incontri e pretesti 2 copies
Les Faux-monnayeurs de André Gide (fiche de lecture et analyse complète de l'oeuvre) (French Edition) (2020) 1 copy
Attendu que 1 copy
Obras Escogidas 1 copy
André gide par lui-même. 1 copy
Un esprit non prévenu 1 copy
Diarios 1911-1925 1 copy
Acceptance speech delivered by Anders Österling at the presentation of the Nobel Prize for Literature to André Gide,… (1971) 1 copy
Tagebcher — Author — 1 copy
Samtlìche Erzahlungen 1 copy
Prem Aur Prakash 1 copy
Self portraits 1 copy
Journal: 1889-1939 1 copy
LA LITERATURA COMPROMETIDA 1 copy
Récits, roman, soties 1 copy
The notebooks of André Walter. Translated from the French and with an introd. and notes by Wade Baskin. (1968) 1 copy
Eloges 1 copy
Rencontres 1 copy
Le Retour 1 copy
Jeunesse 1 copy
Chopin Uzerine Notlar 1 copy
André Gide: Oeuvres majeures: Romans, Nouvelles, Poésie, Cahiers de Voyage, Essais Littéraires &… 1 copy
TEZEU DIN FILE DE TOAMNA 1 copy
André Gide, Dorothy Bussy. Correspondance, tome 2/3 : Janvier 1925 - Novembre 1936 (1981) — Author — 1 copy
André Gide Gesammelte Werke 1 copy
André Gide, Jacques Copeau. Correspondance. Tome 1/2 : Décembre 1902 - Mars 1913 (1989) — Author — 1 copy
Un francâes en la U.R.S.S 1 copy
Falskmyntarna del III 1 copy
Falskmyntarna del I-II 1 copy
A Crime Without A Motive 1 copy
LETTERE AD ANGELA 1986 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
Poesie 1 copy
Rencontres 1 copy
Literatura francesa II: La Sinfonía Pastoral. Los Placeres y los Días. Disraeli. Semmelweiss. La Condición Humana.… (1982) 1 copy
Pântanos 1 copy
De nieuwe spijzen 1 copy
Index des noms et des titres cités dans la correspondance André Gide, Roger Martin du Gard (1971) — Author — 1 copy
André Gide, Dorothy Bussy. Correspondance. Tome 3/3 : Janvier 1937 - Janvier 1951 (1982) — Author — 1 copy
André Gide, Jacques Copeau. Correspondance. Tome 2/2 : Mars 1913 - Octobre 1949 (1989) — Author — 1 copy
Dindiki. 1 copy
André Gide, Henri Ghéon. Correspondance. Tome 1/2 : 1897-1903 et Tome 2/2 : 1904-1944 (1976) — Author — 1 copy
Hyrden 1 copy
Prétextes: (suivi de) Nouveaux prétextes: réflexions sur quelques points de littérature et… (1903) — Author — 1 copy
Gide Et Le Mythe Grec: Suivi De Fragments Du Traite Des Dioscures Et Autres Textes Inedits (Bibliotheque Gidienne)… (2019) 1 copy
Pages from the Journal 1 copy
Littérature engagée 1 copy
Associated Works
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) — Afterword, some editions — 2,389 copies
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 550 copies
Shakespeare : Oeuvres complètes, tome 2 : Roméo et Juliette (1959) — Translator, some editions; Avant-propos, some editions — 15 copies
Les Pages immortelles : De Montaigne, choisies et expliquées par André Gide (1949) — Préface et anthologie — 11 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
Nouvelles — Translator, some editions — 2 copies
Les cahiers de la Petite Dame. Notes pour l'histoire authentique d'André Giide. Tome 2/4 : 1929-1937 (1975) — Contributor — 2 copies
Les cahiers de la Petite Dame : notes pour l'histoire authentique d'Andride. 1, 1918-1929 (1973) — Contributor — 1 copy
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
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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Alissa though continues and takes to a far extreme her self-sacrifice. She has the idea that human love is vastly inferior to love of God and that it indeed gets in the way. She tells Jerome: In the name of this love of God, she continually pushes Jerome away, renouncing human love and happiness. Having renounced earthly pleasure, she naturally wastes away and dies, though only about in her late twenties. Jerome is given her diary after her death, in which she writes that she loves him so much that she has failed to love God more. Despairing, she resolved to help Jerome reach that height of religious virtue that she was unable to reach herself by making it so he could not love her any longer. The cost of her unasked for sacrifice is soon her death, and the last line she writes is, "I should like to die now, quickly, before again realising that I am alone." As a final twist of the knife, Gide has Jerome visit Juliette ten years after Alissa's death, Juliette with 5 children now, and he tells her that he will not love another woman for the rest of his life. She asks him, She puts her hands to her face and begins to cry, and we cannot doubt it is her own love for Jerome of which she was speaking. Lord a'mighty.
Though today we idealize and elevate romantic love, and the deists among us seemingly naturally place God's blessing upon it, this was not always the case. Among the turn of the twentieth century Protestants in northern France, apparently, romantic love and love of God were sometimes seen as rivals, or at least in tension with each other. Gide wrote this novel as a cautionary tale, to explore the taking of this attitude to the extreme. It is a twin tale to his novel The Immoralist, where Michel pursues the opposite extreme of earthly pleasure, also to disaster.
It was also a shot at his wife's tendencies, with whom the homosexual Gide had an unconsummated relationship. His wife who was also his cousin. While The Immoralist, in which a married homosexual man is attracted to Arab boys, is a shot at his own.… (more)