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André Gide

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Also known as André Paul Guillaume Gide, Andre Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume Gide

French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)

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André Gide was a French author and writer. He was born in 1869 and died in 1951. He is recognized in the Nobel Literature collection and received the Nobel Prize once. His notable works include *Journal, 1939-1942*, *La porte étroite*, *Les nourritures terrestres*, and *Correspondence*.

He is referenced by 1,180 other encyclopedia articles. His writings have been associated with tags such as literature and author. Similar artists include Kim Stanley Robinson, Amin Maalouf, Dušan Hamšík, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Rick Riordan. His works include quotes such as "La sagesse n'est pas dans la raison, mais dans l'amour." and "Familles, je vous hais!"

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Person · Open Library

Born
1869
Died
1951
Works
746

Top works

  • Journal, 1939-1942
  • La porte étroite
  • Les nourritures terrestres
  • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) ...
  • Correspondence

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Type
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
55
Total plays
275

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Kim Stanley RobinsonAmin MaaloufDušan HamšíkLouis-Ferdinand CélineRick Riordan

André Paul Guillaume Gide (French pronunciation: ​[ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]; 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. Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Andr%C3%A9+Gide">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,623x

  2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,988x

  3. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,999x

  4. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

    · 2020 · cited 10,253x

  5. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

    · 2018 · cited 9,664x

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Quotes

  • “La sagesse n'est pas dans la raison, mais dans l'amour.”
  • “Familles, je vous hais! foyers clos; portes refermées; possessions jalouses du bonheur.”
  • “...que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim.”
  • “Ce qu'un autre aurait aussi bien fait que toi, ne le fais pas. Ce qu'un autre aurait aussi bien dit que toi, ne le dis pas, — aussi bien écrit que toi, ne l'écris pas. Ne t'attache en toi qu'à ce que tu sens qui n'est nulle part ailleurs qu'en toi-même, et crée de toi, impatiemment ou patiemment, ah! le plus irremplaçable des êtres.”
  • “True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.”
  • “Le péché, c'est ce qui obscurcit l'âme.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Literature1947

    “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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Encyclopedic overview

André Paul Guillaume Gide ( French: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) 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 between the two World Wars. Author of more than 50 books, he was described in his New York Times obituary as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."

Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide expressed the conflict and eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality (characterized by a Protestant austerity and a transgressive sexual adventurousness, respectively). As a self-professed pederast, he used his writing to explore his struggle to be fully oneself, including owning one's sexual nature, without betraying one's values. His political activity was shaped by the same ethos. While sympathetic to Communism in the early 1930s, like many intellectuals, after his 1936 journey to the USSR he supported the anti-Stalinist left. Towards the end of his life, in the 1940s, he shifted towards more traditional values and repudiated Communism as an idea that breaks with the traditions of Christian civilization.

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