RETURN FROM THE U. S. S. R.—André Gide—Knopf ($1). Like Thomas Mann for Germany, like José Ortega y Gasset for Spain, André Gide speaks for a living part of his nation, and speaks to the world. French ...
The Swedish Royal Academy's decision to award the 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature to Andre Gide (1869-1951) was revolutionary. Never before had an openly homosexual author been given that prize. Gide ...
When Britain’s Eighth Army entered Tunis in May 1943, a gaunt, saturnine figure, who looked like an unshaved cardinal, popped out of a hideout in the Italian quarter. He was France’s most discussed, ...
Throughout his life, André Gide was haunted by questions of a religious and moral nature. When he published "Les Nourritures terrestres" (English: "The Fruits of the Earth") in 1897, success opened ...
From Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life, an improvisation on the literary canon, which was published in August by Soft Skull Press. i. The dream is to create a… ...