Word: gide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Britain's Eighth Army entered Tunis in May 1943, a gaunt, saturnine figure, who looked like an unshaved cardinal, popped out of a hideout in the Italian quarter. He was France's most discussed, most influential man of letters, septuagenarian Novelist Andre Paul Guillaume Gide. German patrols, Gide explained, had captured a copy of his latest, frankest journal of events and he had been in hiding for a month. He soon buttonholed an Eighth Army photographer, plunged into an enthusiastic discussion of pre-Nazi German poetry...
...most Americans Andre Gide's name means little. Only a handful of intellectuals have long enthused over his most famous novel, The Counterfeiters (a complex study of Parisian youth), his unblushing autobiography, If It Die, and his perennial personal Journals. But last week it looked as if 1944 was going to be Gide year in the U.S. Publisher Alfred Knopf planned to publish Gide's Imaginary Interviews (discussions of art and society written while Gide was in Vichy France). French publisher in exile Jacques Schiffrin was preparing a French edition of Gide's latest Journals...
...editors, suffering the handi caps of space and copyright that usually beset anthologists, hive included only fragments of each author's work. Marcel Proust, whose Remembrance of Things Past totals 2,265 pages, is represented by five pages ("The Death of Bergotte") from his The Captive. Andre Gide is rep resented by six pages from Les Nouvelles Nourritures. Thomas Mann contributes 13 pages from The Beloved Returns, 17 from Freud, Goethe, Wagner. Benedetto Croce is represented not by his philosophic works but by eight pages from European Literature in the Nineteenth Century...
...those days Andre Maurois wrote: ". . . There was an immediate clash between the morbid susceptibilities of Monsieur Desjardins . . . the diabolical maliciousness of Gide. . . . The Germans . . . enveloped the lucid ideas of the Frenchmen in ... abstractions . . . Lytton Strachey ... in amazement at our lack of humor . . . went to sleep. ... Its virtues far outweighed its drawbacks. . . . There was talk of giving Paul Desjardins the Nobel Prize for Peace...
...Porter Hall, a girls' dormitory, took the place of Pontigny. And last week for the second year, intellectuals who had bandied ideas in Burgundy found themselves just as happy in Massachusetts, although they missed such old Ponti-nians as rapier-sharp Gide. General topic of the second summer of Mount Holyoke entretiens: "permanence of values and renovation of means," with weekly subdivisions for poetry, politics, sociology, science, theater, art, the novel...