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André Gide


Born
in Paris, France
November 22, 1869

Died
February 19, 1951

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences
Goethe, Dostoevsky, Rabindranath Tagore, Mallarmé, Martin du Gard, Nie ...more


Diaries 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 o ...more

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La Symphonie pastorale
3.63 avg rating — 6,450 ratings — published 1919 — 225 editions
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Strait is the Gate
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Les caves du Vatican
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مایده‌های زمینی
3.62 avg rating — 2,533 ratings — published 1897 — 153 editions
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Isabelle
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Les Nourritures terrestres:...
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Marshlands
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If it Die...
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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― Andre Gide
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“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide
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