André Gide

Also known as André Paul Guillaume Gide, Andre Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume Gide

French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)

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André Gide was a prominent French writer who lived from 1869 to 1951 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him one of the most celebrated authors of his era. His works explored complex themes of morality, freedom, and personal identity, influencing modern literature and thought.

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Born: 1869
Died: 1951
Works: 746

Top works

Journal, 1939-1942
La porte étroite
Les nourritures terrestres
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) ...
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Listeners: 55
Total plays: 275

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5 total works indexed

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,393x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,815x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,767x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,393x

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Quotes

“La sagesse n'est pas dans la raison, mais dans l'amour.”
“Familles, je vous hais! foyers clos; portes refermées; possessions jalouses du bonheur.”
“...que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim.”
“Ce qu'un autre aurait aussi bien fait que toi, ne le fais pas. Ce qu'un autre aurait aussi bien dit que toi, ne le dis pas, — aussi bien écrit que toi, ne l'écris pas. Ne t'attache en toi qu'à ce que tu sens qui n'est nulle part ailleurs qu'en toi-même, et crée de toi, impatiemment ou patiemment, ah! le plus irremplaçable des êtres.”
“True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.”
“Le péché, c'est ce qui obscurcit l'âme.”

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Commons category: André Gide
date of birth: 1869-11-22
date of death: 1922-02-19
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birth name: André Paul Guillaume Gide
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André Paul Guillaume Gide ( French: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. Author of more than 50 books, he was described in his New York Times obituary as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."

Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide expressed the conflict and eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality (characterized by a Protestant austerity and a transgressive sexual adventurousness, respectively). As a self-professed pederast, he used his writing to explore his struggle to be fully oneself, including owning one's sexual nature, without betraying one's values. His political activity was shaped by the same ethos. While sympathetic to Communism in the early 1930s, like many intellectuals, after his 1936 journey to the USSR he supported the anti-Stalinist left. Towards the end of his life, in the 1940s, he shifted towards more traditional values and repudiated Communism as an idea that breaks with the traditions of Christian civilization.