Andre Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951 /
Paris) André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner
of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged
from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of
anticolonialism between the two World Wars. Known for his
fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to
public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the
two sides of his personality, split apart by a straight-laced
education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen
as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of
moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his
continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His ... more
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