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Gide, André (Paul Guillaume)

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Gide, André (Paul Guillaume)


French novelist. His work is largely autobiographical and concerned with the conflict between desire and conventional morality. It includes Les Nourritures terrestres/Fruits of the Earth (1897), L'Immoraliste/The Immoralist (1902), La Porte étroite/Strait is the Gate (1909), Les Caves du Vatican/The Vatican Cellars (1914), and Les Faux-monnayeurs/The Counterfeiters (1926). He was a cofounder of the influential literary periodical Nouvelle Revue française (1908), and kept an almost lifelong Journal. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.

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