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2 unusual facts about André Gide


André Gide

He related his peregrinations in a journal called Travels in the Congo (French: Voyage au Congo) and Return from Chad (French: Retour du Tchad).

César Alonso de las Heras

He also gave conferences spreading the work of authors as Claude, García Lorca, André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Miró, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Samuel Beckett, among others.


Jinzai Kiyoshi

Jinzai is known for his translations of the works of the French writers André Gide and Marcel Proust, and the works of the Russian writers Alexander Pushkin, Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov.

Karol Irzykowski

In this highly complex and avantgarde work, he anticipated many innovations made by modern European experimentalists such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner or André Gide.

Murray Bail

Reviewers recently compared Bail's Notebooks 1970-2003 with Proust, Gide and Valery's.

Port-Cros

Between the two World Wars, the island was visited by numerous figures of the artistic and literary world: Jean Paulhan, André Malraux, André Gide, Saint-John Perse, Paul Valéry and Jules Supervielle.

Présence Africaine

The magazine published its first issue in November 1947, founded by Alioune Diop a Senegalese-born professor of Philosophy, along with a cast of African, European, and American intellectuals, writers, and social scientists, including Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Alioune Sarr, Richard Wright, Albert Camus, André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Théodore Monod, Georges Balandier and Michel Leiris.

Victor Serge

Protests came from intellectuals of various political ideologies, including Georges Duhamel, Charles Vildrac, Boris Souvarine, André Gide and Romain Rolland.

Wallace Fowlie

Fowlie corresponded with literary figures such as Henry Miller, René Char, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse), Marianne Moore, and Anaïs Nin.


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