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...JOURNALS OF ANDRÉE GIDE VOL. II, 1914-1927 (462 pp.)-Translated and annotated by Justin O'Brien-Knopf...
...Paris schoolboy "fell convulsively sobbing into mamma's arms" and cried: "I'm not like other people . . . not like other people!" Andre Gide, at eleven, had found his career...
...Gide's difference from other people extends to his extraordinary clothes, his inconsistencies (he has professed to be both an atheist and a Christian), his admitted homosexuality and a superbly polished literary style that makes most other contemporary prose seem sloppy. Gide has suffered more harsh cuffs from critics and more indifference from the reading public than any other major writer of his time. Now, at 78, he is France's literary lion, a member of the Royal Academy since 1924, a Nobel Prizewinner (1947). In many quarters he is regarded as the world's greatest living...
...readers have even a page-flipping acquaintance with Gide's bulky literary output. Of his more than 50 books written in the past 57 years, only...
Counterfeiters, is well-known in the U.S. -and mainly by esthetes and highbrows. It is a brilliant, difficult novel of good & evil, with plots and counterplots twisting through a choking fog of perversion. Gide himself intended The Counterfeiters to be his major work. Even so, only 45,000 copies of all its U.S. editions have been sold. Of the other 16 Gide books published in the U.S., only Vol. I of his intimate Journals (TIME, Sept. 22) has made any dent (10,000 copies sold) on U.S. bookreaders...