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What does André Gide represent to you?

2022-05-18T14:22:02.943Z


Five writers recount their passion for the French writer. Lolita Pille: at 27, I devoured Les Faux-monnayeurs At 27, I was writing experimental literature, no longer earning money, living here and there. One week I was babysitting Beigbeder's cat while he was on vacation, I came across Les Faux-monnayeurs . In general, I don't take books with me when I go to other people's homes, in order to read theirs and get out of my literary monomania. I devoured i


Lolita Pille: at 27, I devoured

Les Faux-monnayeurs

At 27, I was writing experimental literature, no longer earning money, living here and there.

One week I was babysitting Beigbeder's cat while he was on vacation, I came across

Les Faux-monnayeurs

.

In general, I don't take books with me when I go to other people's homes, in order to read theirs and get out of my literary monomania.

I devoured it in a day, charmed by the energy and abundance of this big thing, which borrowed qualities from Stendhal and faults from Balzac.

Gide does biological psychology there.

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A character, Vincent, compares Parisians to two categories of fish: the

"stenohaline",

incapable of surviving in a sea that is losing its salt concentration, and the

"euryhaline"

, which adapts perfectly to it and devours the

"stenohaline".

weakened.

In 2022, we cannot say that this has changed.

We also meet a young man who wants to commit suicide, one morning, because he has never been so happy in all his life, which remains the best...

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Source: lefigaro

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