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Gide, André

Country/Region:
France
Born:
November 22, 1869
Dead:
February 19, 1951
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Drama
The French novelist, poet and playwright was born into a wealthy, strictly protestant bourgeois Paris family. His father, a professor of law, died when André was eleven years old and his further education as well as the rest of his life were strongly influenced by his Calvinist mother. He did not do particularly well at the École Alcasienne, and since his family's fortune enabled him to write without having to work for a living he did not go to university after his baccalaureate. He also abandoned his plans for becoming a concert pianist, something he occasionally regretted. He read Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, he socialised with Mallarmé and his symbolist friends and he was a close friend of Valéry.

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