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Died. André Gide, 81, man of letters; in Paris. Gide published his first book (a journal) at 21, waited long for recognition, longer for an audience, by the end had published 50-odd books: novels (The Immoralist, The Counterfeiters); criticism (Dostoevsky, Chopin); nonfiction ranging from a defense of the U.S.S.R. to an attack on it; and his lifelong Journals. In the '40s he finally won international recognition as one of the century's major writers; the Nobel Prize in 1947 made it official. He was "compelled," he said, to write about his own inner conflicts, "which otherwise...
...Paris, Littérateur André (The Counterfeiters) Gide, 81, motored to the Comédie Française to sit in a red velvet seat and mastermind every rehearsal of the first stage adaptation of one of his novels, Lafcadio's Adventures, written 36 years ago. A satire about a motiveless murder, the play is due to open next week...
Elected to honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters: India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Novelists Andre Gide and Ignazio (Bread and Wine) Silone, Historian Arnold Toynbee...
Upton Sinclair; France's Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, ex-Communists André Malraux and André Gide. First place went to Steinbeck, who "jumped from the camp of progress and love of humanity into the camp of frantic reaction, barbarism and cannibalism...
...innumerable literary pessimists of Paris, 48-year-old Marcel Aymé sets something of a record in his skepticism about the human, race. A dour man with big ears and a considerable resemblance to Buster Keaton, he has a reputation for his provoking silences in company. (When André Gide kindly congratulated him on one of his plays recently, Aymé stared at the old master without saying a word.) In his books, there are only two emotions Aymé has any use for, humor and pity...