André Gide





André Gide

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born
November 22, 1869 in Paris, France

died
February 19, 1951

gender
male

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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


Average rating: 3.65 · 7,628 ratings · 540 reviews · 143 distinct works
The Immoralist
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3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 2,451 ratings — published 1902 — 43 editions
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The Counterfeiters
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,233 ratings — published 1925 — 27 editions
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La symphonie pastorale
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 607 ratings — published 1919 — 20 editions
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مایده‌های زمینی
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Strait Is the Gate
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 763 ratings — published 1909 — 36 editions
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Les Caves Du Vatican
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 1914 — 25 editions
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Lafcadio's Adventures
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1914 — 10 editions
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If it Die...
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1920 — 6 editions
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La Symphonie Pastorale
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Corydon
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3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1924 — 10 editions
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More books by André Gide…
“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.”
André Gide

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
André Gide

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the
shore.”
André Gide

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