André Gide sat for his portrait many times—and largely to himself—during his sixty years of creation. He made of his books a long and continuous confessional, a mirror of his adolescence and troubled ...
THE JOURNALS OF ANDRÉE GIDE VOL. II, 1914-1927 (462 pp.)—Translated and annotated by Justin O’Brien—Knopf ($6). One day in 1881 a Paris schoolboy “fell convulsively sobbing into mamma’s arms” and ...
“The unconcealed and palpable influence of the devil on an important part of contemporary literature is one of the significant phenomena of the history of our time.” This strange note was written in ...
RETURN FROM THE U. S. S. R.—André Gide—Knopf ($1). Like Thomas Mann for Germany, like José Ortega y Gasset for Spain, André Gide speaks for a living part of his nation, and speaks to the world. French ...
The author of Wingate’s Raiders, CHARLES J. ROLO was born in Egypt of British parents and has lived in the United States since his graduation from Oxford nine years ago. JEAN DE SÉGUEY is the pen name ...
When reading of the past, I veer between thinking that everything has changed and that nothing has changed. The past for me is rather like one of those drawings that can be seen either as a duck or as ...
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