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André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) 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.
Gide's acknowledgement of his homosexuality (ephebophilia) was veiled and cautious, reflecting the attitudes of his time.
He first appears to have acted on his impulses on a visit to North Africa in the early 1890s and he later became a friend of Oscar Wilde's.
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nonetheless went further than many contemporary writers, explicitly addressing the issue in two books - The Immoralist and Corydon - and alluding to it
in his memoir If It Die.
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The Immoralist
by André Gide, translated by Dorothy Bussy
1977, Penguin (first published 1902)
£3.00 (inc. UK p&p)
"This is the story of a man's rebellion against social and sexual conformity. The narrator is Michel - a rich, young, agnostic scholar who has just married and gone to stay with his wife in Algeria. Finding that he has tuberculosis, he gradually changes his life, abandoning the aspects of morality which restrict him and following his own wants and needs."
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Strait is the Gate
by André Gide, translator not identified
1971, Penguin (first published 1909)
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"story of young love blighted and turned to tragedy by the sense of religious dedication in the beloved, regarded by many as the most perfect piece of writing which Gide ever achieved"
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Reflections of the Assize Court
by André Gide, translated by Philip A Wilkins
no date, assumed 1941, (first published 1914)
£18.00
"From the earliest days the courts of justice have fascinated me irresistibly. On my travels four things attract me above all others in a town: the public gardens, the market, the cemetery and the law courts. Now, however, I know by experience that it is one thing to hear the law administered and another to take a hand in it oneself. One can still believe in it when one is among the public, but once one is seated in the Jury-box, one recalls the words of Christ: 'Judge not'."
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Journals 1889 - 1949
by André Gide, translated and edited by Justin O'Brien
1967, (first section first published 1939)
£5.50
"André Gide's main testament to posterity. In them he records his sixty years of full and active life, as teacher, naturalist, musician, moral philosopher, critic and novelist, and discusses the problems he faced in his major works. As an artist Gide was politically and intellectually committed on all the important issues of his day, and this is a record of his views. But above all, they reveal Gide's own serious moral attitude towards his art, which in the course of the Journals he transformed from talent to literary genius."
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Et Nunc Manet In Te / Intimate Journal
by André Gide
1952, 1st UK edition first published France 1947
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Rarely has a writer confessed himself more intimately in public than Gide. His vast Journals, covering sixty years of literary life, his frank memoirs If It Die, his outspoken plea for homosexuality in Corydon, are cases in point. Yet, even to those who studied his work most closely, the entire chapter of his conjugal life was missing and has remained a mystery.
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André Gide
by Albert J Guerard
1951, 1st edition
£8.00
Guerard surrounds Gide's elusive figure in a series of interlocking circles of creative criticism, allowing the man and writer to reveal themselves. From chapters on Gide's career, novels, inner conflicts and influence emerges the individualist who was repeatedly tempted by political, moral and religious commitment but who resisted commitment; the inward man suffering from guilt but who at times actively cultivated anxiety and the dissolution of personality; the novelist, who combated his creative impulses.
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Gide
by G W Ireland
1963, 1st edition
£3.75 (inc. UK p&p; spine loose)
Review of various novels, including The Immoralist and Corydon, as well as of his personal writings and attitudes to Communism. "Gide is the prototype and exemplar of the committed artist; and there is indeed scarcely a public issues from alcoholism to pacifism, from colonialism to homosexuality, from Communism to court-room procedure, on which Gide does not speak with authority."
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Corydon
by André Gide, commentary by Frank A Beach
1965, (first published 1911)
Four dialogues on homosexuality, published between 1911 and 1920. The dialogues involve naturalists', historians', poets', and philosophers' evidence to back up Gide's argument that homosexuality is natural and pervaded the most culturally and artistically advanced civilizations such as Periclean Greece, Renaissance Italy and Elizabethan England.
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