This volunze completes
THE JOURNALS OF
Andre Gide
VOLUME III: 1928-1939
Vie third illstallment
of olle of tI,e
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literary records of
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the wi,mer of the
1947
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Volume
III
covers the period of Gide's fifty-ninth
to
his seventieth year,
the years of the Soviet Five Year Plan, of the Civil 'Var in Spain, and
the Munich crisis. In Gide's private life they were the years of a visit to
Rome under Fascism, of his inspection trip to French'Vest Africa, of
sojourns in Algiers, and of the death of Mme Gide.
In and out of these pages pass such men as Paul Valery, llenri de l\-1on–
therlant, Andre Malraux, and Roger Martin du Card. There are vie\\ s
and discussions of figures as various as Hitler, Proust, !\lussolini, 1\lon–
taigne, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Dante. There is concern with French,
English, and American literature - and with music, Chopin's in particu–
lar. Though most of the period of storm and stress is over he is still
pondering the problems of Communism vs. Christi:lOity and
\"S.
individ–
ualism; of Jesus vs. organized Christianity and vs. the Church; and of
the ethics and significance of homosexuality.
Together these three volumes constitute the complete edition of the
Journals:
1889-1939.
They stand as one of the prime spiritual docu–
ments of the twentieth century.
VOLUME III-.flo pages.
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VOLUME II :
19I.l-19~7.
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