André Gide

Anthime Armand-Dubois _Pour ma part, mon choix est fait. J'ai opte pour l'atheisme social. Cet atheisme, je l'ai exprime depuis une quinzaine d'annees, dans une serie d'ouvrages..._ Georges Palante. Chronique philosophique du Mercure de France (Dec. 1912) I. L'an 1890, sous le pontificat de Leon XIII, la renommee du docteur X, specialiste pour maladies d'origine rhumatismale, appela a Rome Anthime Armand-Dubois, franc-macon. - Eh quoi? s'ecriait Julius de Baraglioul, son beau-frere, c'est votre corps que vous vous en allez soignez a Rome! Puissiez-vous reconnaitre la-bas combien votre ame est plus malade encore! A quoi repondait Armand-Dubois sur un ton de commiseration rencherie: - Mon pauvre ami, regardez donc mes epaules. Le debonnaire Baraglioul levait les yeux malgre lui vers les epaules de son beau-frere; elles se tremoussaient, comme soulevees par un rire profond, irrepressible; et c'etait certes grand-pitie que de voir ce vaste corps a demi perclus occuper a cette parodie le reliquat de ses disponibilites musculaires. Allons! decidement leurs positions etaient prises, l'eloquence de Baraglioul n'y pourrait rien changer. Le temps peut-etre? le secret conseil des saints lieux... D'un air immensement decourage, Julius disait seulement:

Two cousins who have loved each other since infancy find the devotion of the years ripening into a love whose mysterious force leaves them embarrased in each other's presence.

La neige qui n'a pas cesse de tomber depuis trois jours, bloque les routes. Je n'ai pu me rendre a R... ou j'ai coutume depuis quinze ans de celebrer le culte deux fois par mois. Ce matin trente fideles seulement se sont rassembles dans la chapelle de La Brevine.

The Immoralist (French: L'Immoraliste) is a novel by André Gide, published in France in 1902. The Immoralist is a recollection of events that Michel narrates to his three visiting friends. One of those friends solicits job search assistance for Michel by including in a letter to Monsieur D. R., Président du Conseil, a transcript of Michel's first-person account. Important points of Michel's story are his recovery from tuberculosis; his attraction to a series of Arab boys and to his estate caretaker's son; and the evolution of a new perspective on life and society. Through his journey, Michel finds a kindred spirit in the rebellious Ménalque.

The Counterfeiters (French: Les Faux-monnayeurs) is a 1925 novel by French author André Gide, first published in Nouvelle Revue Française. With many characters and crisscrossing plotlines, its main theme is that of the original and the copy, and what differentiates them – both in the external plot of the counterfeit gold coins and in the portrayal of the characters' feelings and their relationships. The Counterfeiters is a novel-within-a-novel, with Édouard (the alter ego of Gide) intending to write a book of the same title. Other stylistic devices are also used, such as an omniscient narrator who sometimes addresses the reader directly, weighs in on the characters' motivations or discusses alternate realities. Therefore, the book has been seen as a precursor of the nouveau roman. The structure of the novel was written to mirror "Cubism", in that it interweaves between several different plots and portrays multiple points of view. The novel features a considerable number of bisexual or gay male characters – the adolescent Olivier and at least to a certain unacknowledged degree his friend Bernard, in all likelihood their schoolfellows Gontran and Philippe, and finally the adult writers the Comte de Passavant (who represents an evil and corrupting force) and the (more benevolent) Édouard. An important part of the plot is its depiction of various possibilities of positive and negative homoerotic or homosexual relationships. Initially received coldly on its appearance, perhaps because of its homosexual themes and its unusual composition, The Counterfeiters has gained reputation in the intervening years and is now generally counted among the Western canon of literature.