Correspondance:

by André Gide, Jean Schlumberger, Pascal Mercier

De Jean Schlumberger, l'histoire littéraire - ou les photographies de l'entre-deux-guerres - conserve l'image du disciple de Gide ; du second, celui qui est dans l'ombre. La longue correspondance qu'échangèrent les deux écrivains vient heureusement tempérer cette impression : on y voit l'auteur de Saint-Saturnin faire peu à peu jeu égal avec son illustre aîné. Leur préoccupation littéraire, leur travail commun, ce sera la création de La Nouvelle Revue Française, et des Èditions Gallimard qui la prolongent. Jean Schlumberger assurera la bonne marche de cette aventure hasardeuse, tout comme il se consacrera avec Copeau au lancement du Théâtre du Vieux Colombier. Ainsi ces lettres échangées sont-elles comme le fil rouge d'une des plus grandes entreprises intellectuelles de ce siècle. Et on mesurera pleinement l'intérêt au jour le jour de cette correspondance qui contribue à l'histoire de la vie littéraire des années 1901-1950, tout en témoignant de la longue amitié d'André Gide et de Jean Schlumberger.

1168 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Diaries and novels, such as The Immoralist (1902) and Lafcadio's Adventures (1914), of noted French writer André Gide examine alienation and the drive for individuality in an often disapproving society; he won the Nobel Prize of 1947 for literature.

André Paul Guillaume Gide authored books. From beginnings in the symbolist movement, career of Gide ranged to anticolonialism between the two World Wars.

Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes the conflict and eventual reconciliation to public view between the two sides of his personality; a straight-laced education and a narrow social moralism split apart these sides. One can see work of Gide as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and it gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of full self, even to the point of owning sexual nature without betraying values at the same time. After his voyage of 1936 to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the same ethos informs his political activity, as his repudiation of Communism suggests.

Chinese 安德烈·纪德