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Andre Gide was born in Paul Guillaume in Paris. He was author of over 50 volumes of fiction, poetry, plays, criticism, biography, belles lettres, and translations. Among his best-known works are FRUITS OF THE EARTH and THE COUNTERFEITERS, his translations of OEDIPUS and HAMLET, and his JOURNAL. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. Gide died in 1951.
A new translation by Richard Howard of one of Gide's important first person recits which no doubt will replace that of Mrs. Dorothy Bussy of forty years ago. Mr. Howard has tried to espouse, never to chasten the tone of the original with all its highstrung intensity. (Kirkus Reviews)
