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Gide

American  
[zheed] / ʒid /

noun

  1. André (Paul Guillaume) 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel Prize 1947.


Gide British  
/ ʒid /

noun

  1. André (ɑ̃dre). 1869–1951, French novelist, dramatist, critic, diarist, and translator, noted particularly for his exploration of the conflict between self-fulfilment and conventional morality. His novels include L'Immoraliste (1902), La Porte étroite (1909), and Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1926): Nobel prize for literature 1947

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There were also books studied at school by Marcel Proust, André Gide, Christopher Isherwood, and I felt that the story they were telling was my story.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2019

Sellars in the projected titles spelled out much of what Gide implied, that the only solution to anything is compassion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2019

To drive home her frustration, Sotomayor cited André Gide, a gay French novelist and critic who won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.

From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2018

It was Blanche who brought Gide, Camus, Sartre, and de Beauvoir into the fold, as well as Mann, whose relocation to America she helped arrange.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2016

“There’s stuff here from Gide, Gorky . . .” I assured him that I would read them.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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