Friend and foe : Marcel Proust and André Gide / Frederick John Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Frederick John, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.

Proust, Marcel.

Gide, André, 1869-1951.

Gide, André.

Authors, French--20th century--Biography.

Authors, French.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 473 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002]

Summary:

In Friend and Foe, Frederick Harris examines the life and works of French authors Marcel Proust and Andr Gide. Proust and Gide clearly defined French literature in the first part of the twentieth century. This book contains the whole of correspondence between Proust and Gide, some letters translated in English for the first time.

Contents:

Chapter 2 Beginnings 11

Chapter 3 The Dreyfus Affair 41

Chapter 4 From Dreyfus to Swann 65

Chapter 5 The Quest for Publication 89

Chapter 6 Grasset or the NRF? 123

Chapter 7 Issues of Art 163

Chapter 8 Homosexuality 199

Chapter 9 The NRF and the Route to Publication 227

Chapter 10 The War Years I: Breaking with Grasset 259

Chapter 11 The War Years II: Signing on with the NRF 287

Chapter 12 The Postwar Era and the NRF 313

Chapter 13 To Sodom and Gomorrah 351

Chapter 14 The Last Year 379.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-456) and index.

ISBN:

0761821813

OCLC:

48256389