Word: emmanu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobel Prize in 1947 made it official. He was "compelled," he said, to write about his own inner conflicts, "which otherwise would have fought constantly with each other": his Puritan boyhood v. the hedonism he discovered in North Africa; his homosexuality v. his love for his cousin and wife, Emmanuèle; his emancipation from convention v. his search for a personal substitute; his artist's ego v. his social conscience. The conflicts showed in both his literary style and his personal appearance (he kept a Bible in the flowing cape he once affected...