«Alors il se passa quelque chose d'extraordinaire : je le vis brusquement prendre sa tête dans ses mains et éclater en sanglots. Il ne pouvait plus être question de feinte ; c'étaient de vrais sanglots qui lui secouaient tout le corps, de vraies larmes que je voyais mouiller ses doigts et couler sur ses joues, tandis qu'il répétait vingt fois d'une voix démente :
- Ma femme ne m'aime plus ! Ma femme ne m'aime plus !»
Author
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars. Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straight-laced education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, even to the point of owning one's sexual nature, without at the same time betraying one's values. His political activity is informed by the same ethos, as suggested by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR. Chinese 安德烈·纪德
