Word: gide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This trend is not new, nor is it likely to become standard procedure for future novelists. In the Thirties the group labeled "Esoterics" practiced it with varying degrees of transient success. Andre Gide in France, by giving his works the title of novels perhaps broadened beyond all reason the size qualifications of a novelist. These works are really not novels at all, but allegorical essays, lacking "mass" and concentrating fully on style and theme...
Cynic as Hero. At the side of such intellectuals as Andre Gide, he praised Communism incessantly, but was careful not to join the Communist Party. He got a job as correspondent for Moscow's Izvestia during the Spanish civil war, dutifully penned the Stalin line, but thought so little of it that, at the approach of World War II, he tried to get out of Europe by the Zionist route. Failing, he returned to Moscow by the Communist route and became one of Stalin's favorite thunderers. Throughout World War II he poured an unceasing flow of hate...
Connolly operated on a single ground rule, "the pursuit of quality." He pursued and printed such first-rate writers as T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Arthur Koestler, Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden. Even in wartime, Connolly kept Horizon's standards up and its voice down, made the magazine a kind of semiprecious touchstone of the arts. Earnest literati in England and the U.S. used it to deck their coffee tables and to restock their mental shelves. In The Golden Horizon, Connolly picks a scant 600 pages to represent the original 10,000. The result suggests that Horizon often...
...contrast, the sunniest tale in the book is by that late great skeptic, André Gide, who tells his version of how Theseus bested the Minotaur. The thesis of Gide's Theseus is that the cave of the Minotaur is seductive as well as labyrinthine, a lotus land of indolence and confusion which exists in every man's mind more surely than it ever did in ancient Crete, and that each man must sally forth from it after slaying his personal monsters of fear and convention. In his serene, neoclassic way. Gide puts a French accent...
...approach to the Cantata might be made by way of Gide's aphorism (which Stravinsky quotes in his Poetics of Music) that the beauty of classical works is made evident only by virtue of their subjugated romanticism. One must constantly look for those moments which bring to brief light that underlying level of passion and intensity in the music which is continually evinced on the surface by the texts themselves. The diversity of these texts (all late-Medieval English lyrics) pose another challenge for the listener. "Contrast is everywhere," Stravinsky has written, "Similarity is hidden . . . and is found only after...