André Gide  born November 22, 1869 in France is a writer and autobiographer.

French writer of fiction and autobiography , Andre Gide won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. His most famous work is The Immoralist , a book which was unique in its time for its inclusion of homosexual themes. Known as much for his fiction as for his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and the eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality (characterized respectively by a Protestant austerity and a transgressive sexual adventure), that a strict upbringing and moralizing had contributed to put in opposition.

Gide’s work can be seen as a search for freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and focuses on his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. Her self-exploratory lyrics reflect her search for how to be fully herself, including owning her sexual nature, without at the same time betraying her own values.

His political activity is marked by the same spirit, as evidenced by his repudiation of communism after his trip to the USSR in 1936.

André Gide Lifestyle, Biography, Age, Horoscope, Marriage, Contact & Information

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Lifestyle

• Real Name: André Gide
• Nickname: Andre Gide
• Profession: Writer, Autobiographer
• Date of Birth: November 22, 1869
• Age of Death: February 19, 1951

Personal data

• Place of birth: France
• Astrological sign / Horoscope: Sagittarius
• Location: Paris, France
• Studies: Lycée Henri-IV, Alsatian school
• Start of career: 1891
• Religion: Christian
• Hobbies: Theater

Professional Career & Timeline

• André Gide, is a French writer, born in Paris on November 22, 1869 and died on February 19, 1951.
  Coming from a family of the Protestant bourgeoisie, dividing his life between Paris and Normandy, André Gide assumes his homosexuality from a trip to North Africa which he made in 1893. Passing through Switzerland to treat his nervous condition, he wrote Paludes and, after the liberating death of his mother, married his cousin Madeleine and completed Les Nourritures Terrestres, whose lyricism is hailed by some of the critics when it was published in 1897.
• André Gide supports the fight of the Dreyfusards, but without militancy, preferring literary friendships – Roger Martin du Gard, Paul Valéry or Francis Jammes -, friendships which will sometimes fade over time, like that of his young years, intense and tormented , with Pierre Louÿs. He created with his friends La Nouvelle Revue française, of which he was the leader, and then played an important role in French literature. At the same time, he published novels about the couple such as L’Immoraliste in 1902 or La Porte narrow in 1909 which made him known. His other novels published before and after the First World War – The Vatican Cellars, 1914, deliberately dislocated; The Pastoral Symphony, 1919, his most widely read book, which deals with the conflict between religious morality and feelings; Counterfeiters, 1925, to nonlinear narration – establish him as a leading modern writer who is sometimes criticized for a certain preciousness. However, the preoccupations of a private life marked by assumed homosexuality and the desire to shake up taboos are at the origin of more personal texts like Corydon (1920-24), or If the grain does not die (1926), narrative autobiography which recounts his early childhood as a great bourgeois, his attraction to boys and his veneration for his cousin Madeleine whom he will marry while leading a complicated private life.
• His work then finds a new breath with the discovery of the realities of the world with which he is confronted. Thus the esthete traveler discovered black Africa and in 1927 published the journal of his Voyage to the Congo, in which he denounced the practices of the concessionary companies but also those of the administration and the attitude of the majority of Europeans towards settlements. At the beginning of the 1930s, he became interested in communism, was enthusiastic about the Soviet experience, but was disillusioned during his trip there in the summer of 1936. He published his testimony the same year, Return of the USSR, which earned him the hateful attacks of the Communists. However, he persisted in his denunciation of Soviet totalitarianism at the time of the Moscow trials and, at the same time, engaged in the fight of intellectuals against fascism.
• In 1940, overwhelmed by circumstances, he abandoned the NRF and virtually writing, withdrawing to the Côte d’Azur, then to North Africa during the war. After the war, he was sidelined from literary life, but was honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947, and he therefore concerned himself with the full publication of his Journal. He died on February 19, 1951 in Paris.

Private life of Andre Gide

• André Gide was born in Paris on November 22, 1869 into a bourgeois Protestant family. His father was a law professor at the University of Paris, who died in 1880. His uncle was the political economist Charles Gide. His paternal family has its roots in Italy. His ancestors, the Guidos, settled in France and other western and northern European countries after converting to Protestantism in the 16th century because of persecution.
  marries his cousin Madeleine

Family & Marriage

• Father: Paul Gide
• Mother: Juliette Gide
• Sisters/Brothers: N/A
• Marital Status: Divorced
• Marriage Date: 1895
• Ex Wife: Madeleine Gide
• Child: Catherine Gide

Revenue

• Projects & Business: N/A
• Salary: N/A
• Earnings: N/A

Little known facts

• He published If the grain does not die, an autobiography, in 1924. Family life He began to recognize and accept his homosexual orientation in his early twenties, following an unconsummated marriage with his cousin Madeleine Rondeaux. Surprisingly, in 1923 he had a daughter through a brief sexual relationship with a woman.
• From July 1926 to May 1927, he crossed the French colony in Equatorial Africa with his lover Marc Allégret . Gide successively traveled to Middle Congo (today Republic of Congo), to Ubangi-Shari (today Central African Republic), briefly to Chad, then to Cameroon before returning to France.
• He recounted his wanderings in a journal entitled Voyages au Congo et Retour du Tchad. In this published journal, he criticized the behavior of French business interests in the Congo and inspired reform[ 1 ].
• In the 1930s, he briefly became a communist, or more precisely fellow traveler (he never formally joined any communist party). As a prominent writer sympathizing with the cause of communism, he was invited to speak at the funeral of Maxim Gorky and to visit the Soviet Union as a guest of the Soviet Union of Writers.
• André Gide’s writing spans many genres – “A master of prose narrative, playwright and occasional translator, literary critic, writer, essayist and journalist, André Gide provided 20th-century French literature with one of the most intriguing examples of the ‘literary man ” .
• All of André Gide’s work reveals his passionate revolt against the constraints and conventions inherited from 19th century France. He sought to discover the authentic self beneath its contradictory masks” [World Biography, Dec. 12, 1998].
• Relationship: Met and befriended Oscar Wilde in Paris.