André Gide
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Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide expressed the conflict and eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality (characterized by a Protestant austerity and a transgressive sexual adventurousness, respectively). He suggested that a strict and moralistic education had helped set these facets at odds. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints. He worked to achieve intellectual honesty. As a self-professed pederast, he used his writing to explore his struggle to be fully oneself, including owning one's sexual nature, without betraying one's values. His political activity was shaped by the same ethos. While sympathetic to Communism in the early 1930s, as were many intellectuals, after his 1936 journey to the USSR he supported the anti-Stalinist left; during the 1940s he shifted towards more traditional values and repudiated Communism as an idea that breaks with the traditions of the Christian civilization. Provided by Wikipedia
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André Gide & Jean Amrouche Correspondance 1928-1950 by Gide, André
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André Gide & Léon Blum Correspondance 1890-1950. Nouvelle édition augmentée by Gide, André
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André Gide & André Ruyters 1 Correspondance 1895-1906 by Gide, André
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André Gide & Edmond Jaloux Correspondance 1896-1950 by Gide, André
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André Gide & Jef Last Correspondance by Gide, André
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André Gide & Francis Vielé-Griffin Correspondance by Gide, André
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André Gide & André Ruyters 2 Correspondance 1907-1950 by Gide, André
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André Gide & Robert Levesque Correspondance 1926-1950 by Gide, André
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André Gide & Eugène Rouart 1 Correspondance 1893-1901 by Gide, André
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André Gide & Eugène Rouart 2 Correspondance 1902-1936 by Gide, André
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André Gide & Henri de Régnier Correspondance 1891-1911 by Gide, André
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André Gide & Paul-Albert Laurens Correspondance 1891-1934 by Gide, André
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André Gide & François-Paul Alibert 1907-1950 by Gide, André
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