Word: gide
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...years, the great dialogue in France has been between Faith and Reason, between Pascal, Bossuet and Chateaubriand on one hand, Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau on the other. That dialogue animated the 27-year correspondence between Poet-Diplomat Paul Claudel, an unswerving Catholic who never doubted God, and André Gide. the backslid Protestant who never doubted the individual-a controversy generally conducted in scrupulously courteous and self-Centered letters, but frequently so agitated that one or the other broke off the correspondence. They ended by not speaking to each other...
...dazzling transitions and far-flung references, he is a conversational wonder of the world made the more difficult to follow by his nervous facial tics and a constant snuffling into his hand caused by lifelong asthma. He is too intelligent for me," his brilliant old friend, André Gide, once confessed in admiration...
...intellectual revolutionists spoke of revolution as lyrically as a mystical communion, a tragic but glorious experience which transfigured men. It made his generation aware of a new kind of contemporary hero, the "engaged man," at grips with the vital issues of history. It won the Prix Goncourt, and Gide described it as "panting with an anguish almost unbearable." Cried François Mauriac: "Here is a youth who since adolescence has been moving against society, a dagger in his hand, and who to stab it has sought out its most vulnerable point, in Asia . . . But look! He has talent, more...
...revolutionary vagabonds. Often they were Communists, and at first Malraux saw in Communism something which gave "dignity back to all those I fight with." In the 1930s, the Communists claimed Malraux as their own. Malraux wrote a pro-Communist novel (Days of Wrath), went to Moscow several times, with Gide carried a protest to Hitler against the conviction of Bulgarian Communist Georgi Dimitrov for the Reichstag fire...
...disillusionment was at hand. His friend Gide came back from Russia declaring: "Russia is not what we thought." After the Soviet-Nazi pact, Malraux announced bitterly: "What I wanted to defend for 20 years could not be defended by Communism...