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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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.
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.
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.
22, 26-7
With the loyal support of French literary figures such as Valery Larbaud
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...
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.
185-6
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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...
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...
Literary responses Dorothy Bussy
DB first wrote Olivia in 1933 and then sent the manuscript to her friend André Gide . Gide found it not very engaging
Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press.
344
and, according to Mary Ann Caws and Sarah Bird Wright ...
Reception Dorothy Bussy
The book was a great success in England, where it went into twenty printings during the first several weeks of its release. Soon afterwards it was translated into French by Bussy herself and Roger Martin du Gard
Textual Production Dorothy Bussy
By 1918 DB had written a three-act play called Miss Stock. She gave it to Gide to read in about 1929 and he was reminded of it in April 1932, after seeing Mädchen in...
Textual Production Dorothy Bussy
In 1921 DB began to record her relationship with Gide in private volumes that both referred to as the black notebook. It is possible that these were the diaries which Pippa Strachey later urged...
Textual Production Dorothy Bussy
The University of Victoria in Canada has about forty letters written to DB by T. S. Eliot , spanning the years 1934 to 1955. The Bibliothèque Nationale has her correspondence with Gide .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
DB and André Gide met in Cambridge, beginning a close personal and professional relationship.
Lambert, Jean et al. “Introduction”. Selected Letters of André Gide and Dorothy Bussy, edited by Richard Tedeschi and Richard Tedeschi, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xxiii.
vii
Travel Dorothy Bussy
DB attended a literary conference at the Cistercian Abbaye de Pontigny , at Pontigny in Yonne, France. She returned there in 1926, and on both occasions André Gide was one of her companions.
Caws, Mary Ann, and Sarah Bird Wright. Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. Oxford University Press.
292-3, 297

Timeline

21-25 June 1935: The First International Congress of Writers...

National or international item

21-25 June 1935

The First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture (an anti-fascist event urging the responsibility of writers to their society) was held in Paris.

Texts

Gide, André. Corydon. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1924.
Gide, André. If It Die. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Random House, 1935.
Lambert, Jean et al. “Introduction”. Selected Letters of André Gide and Dorothy Bussy, edited by Richard Tedeschi and Richard Tedeschi, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. vii - xxiii.
Gide, André. Journal 1889-1939. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1939.
Gide, André. L’école des femmes. Gallimard, Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française, 1929.
Gide, André. L’immoraliste. Mercure de France, 1902.
Gide, André. La Porte étroite. Sociéte du Mercure de France, 1909.
Gide, André. Les Cahiers d’André Walter. Librairie de l’Art Indépendant, 1891.
Gide, André. Les Caves du Vatican. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1914.
Gide, André. Les faux-monnayeurs. Gallimard, 1925.
Gide, André. Les Nourritures Terrestres. Sociéte du Mercure de France, 1897.
Gide, André. Oedipe. Gallimard, 1931.
Gide, André. Robert. Gallimard, Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française, 1929.
Gide, André et al. Selected Letters of André Gide and Dorothy Bussy. Editor Tedeschi, Richard, Oxford University Press, 1983.
Gide, André. Si le grain ne meurt. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1924.
Gide, André. Strait is the Gate. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Jarrolds, 1924.
Gide, André. The Counterfeiters. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Knopf, 1927.
Gide, André. The Immoralist. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Knopf, 1930.
Gide, André. The School for Wives. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Knopf, 1929.
Gide, André. The Vatican Swindle. Translator Bussy, Dorothy, Knopf, 1925.
Gide, André. Voyage au Congo. Gallimard, 1927.