Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
André Gide
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Standard Name: Gide, André
Used Form: Andre Gide
AG
was a French novelist, playwright, diarist, autobiographer, essayist, and founder of an influential literary magazine. He also wrote controversial works on sexuality and colonialism. He began publishing in the last decade of the nineteenth century and won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Dorothy Bussy | DB
, who later became known for translating much of Gide
's fiction, first reached print with her translation of Auguste Bréal
's Velasquez. |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Bussy | The Selected Letters of André Gide
and Dorothy Bussy was published. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Author summary | Dorothy Bussy | As a writer DB
is best known for Olivia, her immensely successful, anonymous or rather pseudonymous, autobiographical novel, published in 1949, about a young girl's development at a French boarding school in the later... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | Simon Bussy
, Dorothy's future husband, was born Albert Bussy
in 1870, at Dole in the Jura, which he left in 1886. He arrived in Paris in 1896, where he studied at the Académie Carmen |
| Textual Production | Bryher | Desmond MacCarthy
had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Brookner | Again the protagonist, Kitty Maule, has a mixed national heritage: French/Russian and English. Again she is emotionally impoverished though academically successful; again she falls in love with a charismatic and unattainable man, Maurice Bishop. His... |
| Education | Simone de Beauvoir | As a student SB
continued her extra-curricular reading. She discovered, through her cousin Jacques Champigneulles
, the moderns: Alain-Fournier
, Cocteau
, Montherlant
, Gide
, Claudel
, Valéry
, Barrès
, and Adrienne Monnier
. Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin, 2001. 185-6 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
| Leisure and Society | Sylvia Beach | At the first literary night of Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company
, supporters of SB
's bookshop, André Gide
and Paul Valéry
both read works by Valéry. Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983. 358, 361 |
| Reception | Sylvia Beach | Le Mercure de France published its homage to SB
, with essays and poems by T. S. Eliot
, Janet Flanner
, André Gide
, James Joyce
, Gertrude Stein
and others. Mathews, Jackson, and Maurice Saillet. Sylvia Beach 1887-1962. Mercure de France, 1963. cover and prelims |
| Friends, Associates | Sylvia Beach | Among the first subscribers were Thérèse Bertrand (later Fontaine)
, André Gide
, Dorothy
and Ezra Pound
, and Gertrude Stein
. Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace, 1959. 22, 26-7 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Sylvia Beach | Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company
was dreamed up by Gide
and Valéry
in order to save Shakespeare and Company
from imminent bankruptcy. It was a group of members who would contribute 300 francs (45... |
| Textual Features | Natalie Clifford Barney | Less intimate than Souvenirs indiscrets, this volume includes sketches of Gertrude Stein
, Jean Cocteau
, Gide
, D'Annunzio
, and Rabindranath Tagore
. One piece, written in response to Ramon Gomez de la Serna |
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