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Autobiographical memoir by the French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1947).
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Prestige, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- André Gide
- First published
- 1924
- Pages
- 328
- Publisher
- le Livre de poche, Gallimard, Éditions de la Nouvelle revue française, Editions de la Nouvelle revue française
- Editions
- 64
- Language
- German, fin, English, French
- ISBN
- 9789500340960
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André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 novembre 1869 – 19 février 1951) était un écrivain et auteur français dont les œuvres couvraient une grande variété de styles et de sujets. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de littérature en 1947. La carrière de Gide s'étendait de ses débuts dans le mouvement symboliste à la critique de l'impérialisme entre les deux guerres mondiales. Auteur de plus de 50 livres, il a été décrit dans sa nécrologie du *New York Times* comme « le plus grand homme de lettres contemporain de France » et « jugé le plus grand écrivain français de ce siècle par les connaisseurs littéraires ». ---------- André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer and auth
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