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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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
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/.
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...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
During the later phase of her career, DR translated about five monographs from German and French into English; these texts were published between 1932 and 1934. They include The Dubarry [sic], a biography of...
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Dorothy Bussy
The Selected Letters of André Gide and Dorothy Bussy was published.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Forster
This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells against Henry James in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation...
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.
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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...
Wealth and Poverty Dorothy Bussy
At these times they rented out La Souco, a practice which became an important source of income. Their tenants included Rudyard Kipling , George Mallory , and André Malraux ; André Gide and Julian Morrell

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