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André Gide

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The Prodigal Sonappears in The Return of the Prodigal Son

The prodigal son is a character Andre Gide borrows from Christ's parable in the Gospel of Luke. According to the parable, the son of a very wealthy man runs away from home hoping to find pleasures in foreign lands. He winds up poor and miserable and returns to his father, who mercifully and joyfully accepts him. The Catholic interpretation of this suggests that the...

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Andr Gide Biographies (2)

André Gide

1,368 words, approx. 5 pages

The works of the French author André Gide (1869-1951) reveal his passionate revolt against the restraints and conventions inherited from 19th-century France. He sought to uncover the authentic ... Read more

Andre (Paul Guillaume) Gide

14,733 words, approx. 50 pages

André Gide is one of the most important novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. His place in the development of the genre is equal to that of other innovators such as Marcel Prous... Read more

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