 Recollections
of André Gide
(Notes sur André Gide)
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Roger Martin du Gard was a lifelong
friend of André Gide's. Both won the
Nobel Prize for Literature, but while Gide was and has remained internationally
famous, Martin du Gard has been all but entirely forgotten. This memoir of his
friend, which covers over 35 years of extracts from Martin du Gard's diaries,
is, then, not only an insightful and often humorous story of two great literary
friends (Gide dedicated his only novel to Martin du Gard and, at the end of his
life, said he was the only person whose opinions he cared about), but also serves
as a constant source of wonder on the trappings of fate that would allow one
of these two great writers to succeed so unquestionably, while the other would
be consigned to the dustbin of history. But, first and foremost, it is a beautiful
tale of two great writers who, while almost diametrically opposed stylistically,
shared friendship and a mutual admiration for the other's craft. It is a quite
unique and very stunning piece of literary history.
/Marc-David Jacobs, 20, United States |
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