Word: schiffrin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perennial personal Journals. But last week it looked as if 1944 was going to be Gide year in the U.S. Publisher Alfred Knopf planned to publish Gide's Imaginary Interviews (discussions of art and society written while Gide was in Vichy France). French publisher in exile Jacques Schiffrin was preparing a French edition of Gide's latest Journals (1939-1942), a translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, which Gide has been working at intermittently for 20 years.* Little magazines translated snatches of anything Gidean they could get hold of. Dozens of university students announced that Gide would...