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Gide

[ zheed ]

noun

  1. An·dré (Paul Guil·laume) [ah, n, -, drey, pawl gee-, yohm], 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel Prize 1947.


Gide

/ ʒid /

noun

  1. GideAndré18691951MFrenchWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: criticWRITING: diarist André (ɑ̃dre). 1869–1951, French novelist, dramatist, critic, diarist, and translator, noted particularly for his exploration of the conflict between self-fulfilment and conventional morality. His novels include L'Immoraliste (1902), La Porte étroite (1909), and Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1926): Nobel prize for literature 1947
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She was also considered a serious artist: “Colette is the greatest living French writer of fiction,” Katherine Anne Porter wrote in The New York Times in 1951, “and was while Gide and Proust still lived.”

In fact, “Marshlands” was written by the French novelist and journalist Gide, whose career extended from the late 19th century to his death in 1951.

At the same time, he was drawn to the work of future Nobel laureate André Gide, who rebelled against bourgeois conventions and wrote of sensual fulfillment.

So did André Gide and the French ambassador.

It includes an extraordinary portrait of André Gide: one of the great literary portraits.

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