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The Journals of Andre Gide, 1889-1949: 1924-1949
Journal entries depict Andre Gide's feelings about literature and philosophy and chronicle his efforts to create a unique writing style
368 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1987
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André Gide
915 books1,732 followersDiaries and novels, such as
The Immoralist
(1902) and
Lafcadio's Adventures
(1914), of noted French writer André Gide examine alienation and the drive for individuality in an often disapproving society; he won the Nobel Prize of 1947 for literature.
André Paul Guillaume Gide authored books. From beginnings in the symbolist movement, career of Gide ranged to anticolonialism between the two World Wars.
Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes the conflict and eventual reconciliation to public view between the two sides of his personality; a straight-laced education and a narrow social moralism split apart these sides. One can see work of Gide as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and it gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of full self, even to the point of owning sexual nature without betraying values at the same time. After his voyage of 1936 to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the same ethos informs his political activity, as his repudiation of Communism suggests.
Chinese 安德烈·纪德
André Paul Guillaume Gide authored books. From beginnings in the symbolist movement, career of Gide ranged to anticolonialism between the two World Wars.
Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes the conflict and eventual reconciliation to public view between the two sides of his personality; a straight-laced education and a narrow social moralism split apart these sides. One can see work of Gide as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and it gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of full self, even to the point of owning sexual nature without betraying values at the same time. After his voyage of 1936 to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the same ethos informs his political activity, as his repudiation of Communism suggests.
Chinese 安德烈·纪德
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October 18, 2013
Gide's 'Correspondances' are among the great journals written in the 20th century. They lay open the conflict between his Christianity and homosexuality. His observations of the triumph of Russian communism and the rise of Hitler in the early 1930s are written with the optimism that many intellectuals felt before these ideologies turned horribly sour. I love the piquant one-line entries in his diary, like "Those who always seek their comfort, settling in 'the best way possible': a great sign of mediocrity."--30 June 1931. Lots of nuggets-It's time to embrace French literature again, and this Nobel winner in particular.
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