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André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism in the interwar period. Author of more than 50 books, he was described in his obituary in The New York Times as "France's greatest contemporary man of…
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culture · French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951) · journalist · film producer · essayist · playwright · novelist · diarist · travel writer · translator · autobiographer · writer · also André Gide, Gide
Born 22 November 1869 · Died 19 February 1951 · Q47484
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Bluewin: National Library receives estate of writer André Gide
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2024· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: André Gide and the Second World War: A Novelist's Occupation
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2021· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: André Gide's Pioneering Autofiction
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2020· 1 entry
The New Criterion: André Gide: Faust or Mephistopheles?
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2019· 2 entries
JSTOR Daily: Bulletin d'informations (Association des amis d'André Gide)
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“Citation choisie pour le 17 novembre 2019.”
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2017· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 4 août 2017.”
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2012· 1 entry
The Guardian: Reading group: The Immoralist, by André Gide
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2010· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 10 avril 2010.”
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2009· 2 entries
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The diaries of André Gide
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“André Gide soll gesagt haben: ‚Oft merkt man nicht, wenn sich eine Tür schließt, dass sich eine andere öffnet.‘" - Gesine Schwan im Interview. DIE ZEIT - Campus Nr. 3/2009 10. Mai 2009”
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1989· 1 entry
“Jeder Schweizer trägt seine Gletscher in sich." - Stirb und werde. Deutsch von Johanna Borek. Gesammelte Werke, Bd. 1/1. Stuttgart 1989. S. 328”
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1957· 1 entry
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller: The Open Door. Doubleday 1957. p. 11 books.google”
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1953· 1 entry
“Glaube denen, die die Wahrheit suchen, und zweifle an denen, die sie gefunden haben." - So sei es oder Die Würfel sind gefallen. Deutsch von Maria Schaefer-Rümelin. DVA Stuttgart 1953”
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1952· 2 entries
“Jeux sont faits" - página 174, André Gide - Gallimard, 1952 - 197 páginas”
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“(Original franz.: "croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent;" - Ainsi soit-il ou Les jeux sont faits. Gallimard 1952. p. 174 books.google)”
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1951· 15 entries
Died 1951-02-19.
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“Z dobrych uczuć robi się złą literaturę.”
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“Toutes choses sont dites déjà; mais comme personne n'écoute, il faut toujours recommencer.”
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“Im bardziej zbliżam się do śmierci, tym mój lęk jest mniejszy.”
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“Wszystko zostało już powiedziane, ponieważ jednak nikt nie słucha, trzeba wciąż zaczynać od nowa.”
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“Talent to strach przed porażką.”
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“Nie do pomyślenia, by Francuz osiągnął wiek średni, nie mając syfilisu i Orderu Legii Honorowej.”
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“Należy mnożyć wzruszenia, nie zamykać się w jednym życiu, w jednym ciele: uczynić, by dusza dała gościnę wielu duszom.”
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“(…) quand un philosophe vous répond, on ne comprend plus du tout ce ce qu’on lui avait demandé. (fr.)”
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“Branie czegoś na serio przez długi czas utrudnia życie.”
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“As ações mais decisivas de nossa vida - quero dizer, aquelas que provavelmente decidem todo o curso de nosso futuro - muitas vezes não são levadas em conta.”
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“Była to podejrzana godzina, gdy się noc kończy, a diabeł robi rachunki.”
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“Dla mnie, któremu nic tak nie leży na sercu jak najdokładniejsze jego widzenie, czymś oszołamiającym jest ilość kłamstwa, jaką otoczony jest człowiek pobożny.”
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“Nada impede mais a felicidade do que a lembrança da felicidade.”
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“Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent.”
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century for The Counterfeiters (1950).
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt (1949).
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1947· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1947).
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Received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insi
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Said that although civilizations rise and fall, Christian civilization may be saved from doom "if we accepted the responsibility of the sacred charge laid on us by our traditions and our past
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1946· 1 entry
When Pierre Herbert asked Gide which of his books he would choose if only one were to survive," Gide replied, "I think it would be my Journal
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1942· 1 entry
And lived in Tunis from December 1942 until it was retaken by French, British and American forces in May 1943 and he was able to travel to Algiers, where he stayed until the end of World War II
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1939· 1 entry
Gide became the first living author to be published in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade
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1937· 1 entry
In response, Gide published Afterthoughts on the U
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1935· 1 entry
And his Journal; Gide approved the text
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1932· 1 entry
“André Gide in: "Oeuvres complètes d'André Gide" - vol. 15, Página 125, N[ouvelle] r[evue] f[rançaise], 1932”
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1930· 2 entries
“The only drama that really interests me and that I should always be willing to depict anew, is the debate of the individual with whatever keeps him from being authentic, with whatever is opposed to his integrity, to his integration. Most often the obstacle is within him. And all the rest is merely accidental.”
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Gide published a book about the Blanche Monnier case, La Séquestrée de Poitiers, changing little but the protagonists' names
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1929· 3 entries
“Si le grain ne meurt" - página 340, André Gide - Gallimard, Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française, 1929, ed. 44 - 372 páginas”
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“Paludes - página 92, André Gide, Gallimard, Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française, 1929 - 198 páginas”
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“(Original franz.: "Je ne dis rien, par habitude ; quand un philosophe vous répond, on ne comprend plus du tout ce qu'on lui avait demandé. - Paludes . Gallimard, Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française, 1929. p. 92 books.google)”
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1926· 1 entry
“(Original franz.: "tout Suisse porte en soi ses glaciers" - Si le grain ne meurt (1926). p. 266 oasisfle.com/ebook)”
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1925· 1 entry
“Corydon - Página 38, André Gide Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française, 1925 - 217 páginas”
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1924· 2 entries
“Si le grain ne meurt [If It Die] (1924), ch. III”
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Published an autobiography, If it Die
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1923· 2 entries
Published a book on Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Gide sired a daughter, Catherine, by Elisabeth van Rysselberghe, a much younger woman
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1919· 1 entry
“La Symphonie Pastorale (1919)”
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1918· 1 entry
Gide met and befriended Dorothy Bussy; they were friends for more than 30 years, and she translated many of his works into English
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1916· 1 entry
Gide was about 47 years old when he took Marc Allégret, age 15, as a lover
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1912· 1 entry
“Le retour de l'enfant prodigue: précédé de cinq autres traités" - página 10, André Gide - Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française, 1912 - 235 páginas”
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1908· 1 entry
Gide helped found the literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française (The New French Review)
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1903· 1 entry
“Portraits and Aphorisms (1903), Pretexts”
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1897· 4 entries
“Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897)”
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“Les Nourritures Terrestres [Fruits of the Earth] (1897), book I”
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“Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897), book IV”
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“Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897), Envoi”
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1896· 1 entry
Was elected mayor of La Roque-Baignard, a commune in Normandy
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1895· 1 entry
After his mother's death, Gide married his cousin Madeleine Rondeaux, but the marriage remained unconsummated
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1893· 1 entry
And 1894, Gide travelled in Northern Africa
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1889· 3 entries
“Theorie des Buches: toter Buchstabe? Ein Sack Samenkörner." - Aus den Tagebüchern 1889-1939. Übersetzung und Auswahl von Maria Schaefer-Rümelin. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1961. Seite 53 books.google”
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“Poésie: Les cahiers d'André Walter. Les poésies d'André Walter. Les nourritures terrestres. Les nouvelles nourritures. Souvenirs de la cour d'assises. Si le grain ne meurt. Journal (1889 à 1916) - Página 529, André Gide - Gallimard, 1952”
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“(Original franz.: "Théorie du livre: lettre morte? Un sac de graines." - Journal 1889-1939. Gallimard 1951. p. 93 books.google)”
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1869· 1 entry
Born 1869-11-22.
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