“Truly, it is a terrible thing to make a book,” André Gide wrote in the afterword to his first novella, Marshlands. By that point, he had already written five, including memoirs, poetry collections, ...
RETURN FROM THE U. S. S. R.—André Gide—Knopf ($1). Like Thomas Mann for Germany, like José Ortega y Gasset for Spain, André Gide speaks for a living part of his nation, and speaks to the world. French ...
Early on this month, @BaroqueLibraria contacted me on Twitter to ask about The Immoralist. "I'm about halfway through and I find the main character's self-absorption annoying," s/he said. "Are we ...
“The unconcealed and palpable influence of the devil on an important part of contemporary literature is one of the significant phenomena of the history of our time.” This strange note was written in ...
When Britain’s Eighth Army entered Tunis in May 1943, a gaunt, saturnine figure, who looked like an unshaved cardinal, popped out of a hideout in the Italian quarter. He was France’s most discussed, ...
She lived with Djuna Barnes, photographed Man Ray, and taught Marcel Duchamp how to dance. Upon the release of a book showcasing her famous Paris Portraits, we discover the woman behind the camera.
Andre Gide's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 86 USD to 5,292 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. What is Andre Gide's most ...
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