The suffering rna n
behind the
baffling genius
Cide and
the Hound
of Heaven
By HAROLD MARCH
LITERARY history seldom
sees so paradoxical a fi gure
as Andre Gide. He was both
God-seeker and Antichrist, Pu·
ritan and homosexual libertine,
supremely independent of public
opinion and obsessively com–
pelled to public confession. An
unpopular author, he won the
Nobel Prize ••• a human enig·
ma, he exercised the greatest
cultural influence of the modern
day. In this shrewd, compas–
sionate reading of an extreme–
ly complex personality Professor
March intertwines the themes
of Gide's novels with the revela–
tions of the famed journals •.•
and he uncovers what Gide
could not. For d.eep understand–
ing of WHY Gide wrote as he
did, read this absorbing book.
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ALBERT CAMUS is the author of
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Sisyphus. "Art and Revolt" is a
section from his new book, L'Hom–
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year by Gallimard.
MARCEL AYME is the well-known
French novelist, whose most recent
book to appear here is The Second
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inger Jr., of the recent book on
MacArthur, The General and the
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philosophy at Princeton.
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