Biography
The French writer Andre Die worked for 60 years and during this time managed to become one of the most prominent authors and thinkers of his country. Psychological insights, the desire for the truth and the deep knowledge of the human nature together with the gift of the Cottage Art Word, brought the Nobel Prize in literature and put in a number of classics of European literature on the 20th century.Childhood and youth
Andre was born in Paris in 1869 and grew up in a family where the Religious Rule Rule. Parents-Calvinists strictly instructed the child in matters of faith and morality, against which from the earliest years in the soul of the boy protested. Father Zhida was a professor at the University of Paris, he died when his son was 11 years old. Since then, the future writer remained without male influence.
The child was engaged in a mother and aunts, he was weak health, therefore education received fragmentary and non-systematic. However, learning to the Protestant School of Paris, Andre seriously became interested in literature, drinking ancient Greek poetry. So in the young man became the desire to become a writer. Love for elegant arts also expressed in hobby with music that Mom actively encouraged.
At the 20th age, the Lyceum graduated from the Lyceum and began to engage in literature. The father's legacy allowed him to take care of food, and the young man dedicated himself to writing and journey. He visited North Africa, which became a source of inspiration and manila a writer again and again.
Personal life
Personal life of the writer is full of difficulty and peripetia. Andre's first love was Madeleine Rondo's cousin. She was dedicated to the writer his writings, waiting for the girl reciprocity. These relationships were tied to the close spiritual relationship, but the proposal of the hands and hearts of Kuzin accepted on immediately, only in 1895 agreeing to become a wife of Zhida.This marriage was kept on the love of all thely Platonic - the wife experienced a neurotic fear of intimate proximity, and therefore the couple did not have children. The husband at the same time realized the homosexual inclinations that the marriage could not be healing. Encouraging with a man in Tunisia in 1893, Andre tried for a long time to get along with the contradiction between the feelings of his wife and the sexual burden of their sex.
Embed from getty imagesMadelene, having learned about her husband's orientation, left him, settled in the Norman Kuverville. At the same time, spiritual unity and warm feelings between spouses persisted. This did not prevent a man to have other ties, for example, with director Mark Allegra or Elizabeth Wang Rüsselberg, which in 1923 gave birth to the writer daughter Katrin.
The Frenchman did not hide homosexuality and even declared it in his works, for which he was attacked by writing brethren. Yes, and he himself was sharply worried about the conflict between the carnal passions and high spiritual aspirations.
Books
For Creativity, Zhida is characterized by skepticism in relation to traditional Western society and morality. According to the author, cosiness and blind worship before the authorities interfere with the free personality to find the way to self-realization and genuine self-expression. The early works of the Frenchman were influenced by symbols, but he soon moved away from them, carried away by the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and the Poet of Walt Whitman.
Embed from getty imagesInterested in a writer and Russian literature - about Fedor Dostoevsky Andre even wrote a book that caused a surge of interest in the Figure Figure in France. The works of the fiend itself were invariably discussed by the public and became events, referring to the quotes. The influence of the author on the European literature of the 20th century is difficult to overestimate. Among the most famous works are "close gates", "counterfeiters", "immoralist".
Death
The writer died at 81 years old, when the cause of death is no longer being reached. In recent years, the well-being of the Frenchman was heavy - the man could not go to Stockholm in 1947 to get the Nobel Prize. However, the writer did not leave the author until the end of the days, continued to create a "diaries", consisting of understanding the events, problems, facts of biography, opinions and disputes.One of the last photos Andre dates back to 1950, he was shot in the Jean-Field of Sartre. Zhida did not become February 19, 1951 in Paris, and the grave of the classic is located in Kuverwille, where his estate was. The last of the written books "and now dwells in you" published posthumously and after the other writings of the author replenished the Golden Foundation of World Literature.
Bibliography
- 1891 - "Treatise on Narcissue"
- 1893 - "Love Experience"
- 1897 - "Earth's Easy"
- 1899 - "Bad Chained Prometheus"
- 1909 - "Close Gate"
- 1914 - "Vatican Dungeons"
- 1923 - "Dostoevsky"
- 1925 - "Fakes"
- 1936 - "Genevieve"
- 1936 - "Return from the USSR"
- 1951 - "And now dwells in you"