André Gide d’après le “Journal intégral” de Julien Green

Abstract

André Gide is the main personage of Julien Green’s Journal intégral, which has recently been published, for the first time in its unabridged edition. Gide is mentioned more than sixty times in this period beginning in the days following the First World War, in 1919, up to the French army’s rout in 1940. Gide, who is thirty years older than Green, becomes his fellow, soon his friend. However he is regarded more as a confidant than as a model, because of the great reticences relating to his works. Gide has soon not only sexual complicity with him, but, above all, he becomes Green’s close friend, so to speak, his elder brother.