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...eligible candidates than the nation's lycées could possibly handle, French educational authorities decided to slash the number by giving the toughest entrance examinations in history. They succeeded only too well. This month 200,000 eleven-year-olds were forced to answer questions on André Gide, to analyze passages from Gabriel Hanotaux, and to solve problems such as: "A group of passengers contributed 850 francs each to rent a bus. Six withdrew, so the price was raised by 210 francs each. How many people finally formed the group?"* The result of the exam...
...Gide. The demon that possessed Jacques and his girl came from drinking deeply of the heady, dark brews of French intellectualism, from the Marquis de Sade to Jean Paul Sartre. Denise was the ardent disciple of them all, a girl so enamored of the intellectual life and so prone to bedding with students that she soon found herself the mother of a bastard child. Her lover Jacques had already fathered two bastards by the time they met, and his approach to women was always patterned on that of his intellectual idols. "In the manner of Gide," he would tell...
Victor Hugo was born (1802) to lead, and France still groans under his leadership. Asked who is France's greatest poet, Andre Gide made a famed reply: "Victor Hugo, alas!" His answer sums up precisely the pain and resentment still felt by many Frenchmen when they bow the knee to the man who wrote an end to the old traditions. In this excellent biography, Andre Maurois explains why. Subtlety, precision, restraint are French gods, but enthroned above them all sits the immortal Hugo, passionate antithesis of subtlety, precision and restraint...
Under the aegis of the French Club, Andre Gide's Le Retour de L'Enfant Prodigue is now making its first appearance on an American stage in a very small and very stylish way. The problem of adapting Gide's story was not great, since it consists of nothing more than a series of dialogues, but the handling of the whole affair by director Edward Morris is exceptionally witty. The result--though scarcely more than a half hour long--is nice theater...
...Gide's introduction to the stage is indeed small, but its elegance is far beyond the usual. Even those whose French is moderate at best will find this bright play well rewards a walk across the campus...