GIDE André (1869-1951). Ecrivain.

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GIDE André (1869-1951). Ecrivain.
L.A.S. Cuverville, November 27, 1918. 1 p. in-8. Gide apologizes for not having quoted the literary journal L'Ermitage, in which he had long collaborated. "I am extremely affected by the forgetfulness and negligence that you point out to me [...] Be sure that I will repair them, if it is possible - and that I would have done it on my own, because the memory of L'Ermitage is close to my heart - and the recognition. Besides, trust that in a few days I will speak of the Hermitage as it deserves and tell what we owe it [...]". Gide adds in p.s. "Did you see that in the reprint of my Nourritures which has just appeared, I took care to say that Menalque had appeared in the Hermitage, what I could not forget". Founded by Henri Mazel, the review L'Ermitage appeared between 1890 and 1907; along with La Plume, Le Mercure de France and La Revue Blanche, it was one of the four French avant-garde reviews of the late 19th century. Gide writes here a week after his final breakup with his wife, Madeleine Rondeaux; upon discovering the writer's affair with the young and future filmmaker Marc Allégret, she destroyed all their correspondence. This drama deeply marked the sentimental life of the writer who wrote in his Diary on November 22, 1918: It is the best of me that disappears ... I suffer as if she had killed our child... The work cited by Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres, was published for the first time in 1897; with Prométhée mal enchainé and L'Immoraliste, which were published successively in 1899 and 1902, Les Nourritures is the first novel that evokes his homosexuality.
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