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André Gide

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born
in Paris, France
November 22, 1869

died
February 19, 1951

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

influences
Dostoevsky, Fielding, du Gard, Nietzsche, Rabindranath Tagore, Wilde


About this author

André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.

Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straight-laced education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, even t...more


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André Gide's Books

Average rating: 3.68 · 11,861 ratings · 733 reviews · 159 distinct works · Similar authors
The Immoralist
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3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 3,496 ratings — published 1902 — 50 editions
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The Counterfeiters
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 2,418 ratings — published 1925 — 38 editions
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La symphonie pastorale
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 1,100 ratings — published 1919 — 30 editions
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Strait is the Gate
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 1,154 ratings — published 1382 — 42 editions
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مایده‌های زمینی
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 1,094 ratings — published 1897 — 23 editions
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Les caves du Vatican
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 1914 — 32 editions
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Lafcadio's Adventures
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 1914 — 10 editions
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If it Die...
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1920 — 7 editions
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Isabelle
3.13 of 5 stars 3.13 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1911 — 22 editions
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Corydon
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1924 — 11 editions
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Quotes by André Gide

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves
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“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― André Gide
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