Notes On André Gide

Roger Martin du Gard

André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize, is a revered figure in French literature. The quirky, intimate, and fascinating portrait drawn in these "notes" can be relished by someone who has never read or even heard of Gide. Gide's friendship with Roger Martin du Gard lasted over thirty-eight years. In his journal, Gide wrote of his friend, "With him I can let myself go and be perfectly natural."

Memoir, French Literature, 5 x 7 1/2, 108 pages, Hardcover, $17.50, ISBN 1-885586-31-0

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About the Author

Roger Martin du Gard won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937. He dedicated most of his life to a single work, an eight-part novel-cycle with the collective title, Les Thibault (1922-1940). This long series of novels is best known for the artistic power and truth with which they depicted human conflict, as well as some fundamental aspects of life in France during the ten years preceding the First World War. A longtime and intimate friend of Andre Gide, the “notes” are excerpts from his journal.

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