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What did André Gide later come to call "one of the most stinging and remorseful regrets of my life"?
a. Developing communist leanings while living in Russia in the 1930s.
b. His role in the initial rejection of Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'.
c. Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.
d. His friendship with Oscar Wilde.
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André Gide

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born

November 22, 1869

died

February 19, 1951

gender

male

place of birth

Paris, France

genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

influences

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

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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 on...more

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avg rating: 3.62 | 3,156 ratings | 252 reviews | 166 distinct works | 12 fans

	The Immoralist by André Gide avg rating 3.68 — 794 ratings — published 1902 31 editions	my rating:
	مایده‌های زمینی by André Gide, جلال آل احمد (Translator), پرویز داریوش (Translator) avg rating 3.42 — 433 ratings — published 1949 9 editions	my rating:
	The Counterfeiters: A Novel by André Gide avg rating 3.94 — 289 ratings — published 1951 25 editions	my rating:
	La Symphonie Pastorale (Folio Ser .: No 18) by André Gide avg rating 3.48 — 183 ratings — published 1925 21 editions	my rating:
	Strait is the Gate by André Gide avg rating 3.65 — 159 ratings — published 1327 20 editions	my rating:
	مائده های زمینی و مائده های تازه by André Gide avg rating 3.72 — 61 ratings — published 1956 3 editions	my rating:
	Lafcadio's Adventures by André Gide avg rating 3.62 — 56 ratings — published 1980 5 editions	my rating:
	Les Nourritures Terrestres by André Gide avg rating 3.74 — 53 ratings — published 1942 6 editions	my rating:
	Les Caves Du Vatican by André Gide avg rating 3.55 — 47 ratings — published 1367 15 editions	my rating:
	If It Die . . .: An Autobiography by André Gide avg rating 3.45 — 38 ratings — published 1920 5 editions	my rating: