André Gide (1869-1951) écrivain

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André Gide

né à Paris 6e le 22 novembre 1869 et mort à Paris 7e le 19 février 19511, est un écrivain français.
Issu d'une haute famille de la bourgeoisie protestante, partageant sa vie entre Paris et la Normandie, André Gide se découvre différent et assume à partir de 1893 son homosexualité. Passé par la Suisse pour soigner son état nerveux, il écrit Paludes, épouse sa cousine Madeleine et achève Les Nourritures terrestres paru en 1897.
Il crée avec ses amis La Nouvelle Revue française dont il est le chef de file. Parallèlement, il publie des romans sur le couple comme...lire la suite

André Gide

born in Paris 6th on 22 November 1869 and died in Paris 7th on 19 February 19511, is a French writer.
Coming from a high-class family of the Protestant bourgeoisie, sharing his life between Paris and Normandy, André Gide discovered himself different and assumed his homosexuality from 1893. He went to Switzerland to cure his nervous condition, wrote Paludes, married his cousin Madeleine and completed Les Nourritures terrestres published in 1897.
He created with his friends La Nouvelle Revue Française, of which he is the leader. At the same time, he published novels about the couple such as L'Immoraliste in 1902 or La Porte étroite in 1909 which made him known. His other novels published before and after the First World War establish him as a prominent modern writer who is sometimes reproached for being precious. However, concerns about a private life marked by assumed homosexuality and the desire to shake up taboos are at the origin of more personal texts such as Corydon (1920-24), or Si le grain ne meurt pas (1926), autobiographical account of his early middle-class childhood.
In 1940, overwhelmed by the circumstances, he almost abandoned writing and retired to the French Riviera, then to North Africa during the war. After the war, he was excluded from literary life but honoured by the Nobel Prize for literature in 1947 and he was concerned with the full publication of his journal. He died on 19 February 1951.
Source : various Internet documents including Wikipedia