Gide

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An·dré (Paul Guil·laume) [ah, n, -, drey, pawl gee-, yohm], 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel Prize 1947.

Gide

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Gide��Ի��é18691951MFrenchWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: criticWRITING: diarist ��Ի��é (ɑ̃dre). 1869–1951, French novelist, dramatist, critic, diarist, and translator, noted particularly for his exploration of the conflict between self-fulfilment and conventional morality. His novels include L'Immoraliste (1902), La Porte étroite (1909), and Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1926): Nobel prize for literature 1947

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She was also considered a serious artist: “Colette is the greatest living French writer of fiction,” Katherine Anne Porter wrote in The New York Times in 1951, “and was while Gide and Proust still lived.”

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In fact, “Marshlands” was written by the French novelist and journalist Gide, whose career extended from the late 19th century to his death in 1951.

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At the same time, he was drawn to the work of future Nobel laureate ��Ի��é Gide, who rebelled against bourgeois conventions and wrote of sensual fulfillment.

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So did ��Ի��é Gide and the French ambassador.

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It includes an extraordinary portrait of ��Ի��é Gide: one of the great literary portraits.

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