Correspondence (1920-1950)

André Gide, Ernst Robert Curtius. Correspondence (1920–1950). Edited by Peter Schnyder and Juliette Solvès, Paris, Classiques Garnier, ‘Bibliothèque gidienne’, 2019. ISBN: 9782406093176

About the book
This volume rightfully takes its place among the correspondence of great men of letters. The famous French Nobel laureate André Gide (1869–1951) and the German Romanist Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956), a complex figure of rare erudition, began a correspondence in 1920 covering a wide range of subjects: literature and writing, of course, but also the turbulent relations between their respective countries, having barely emerged from the First World War, the political and cultural debate in general, and translation. The subtlety of both men’s critical analyses here attains a quality and depth that fuel rich and fascinating exchanges, spanning thirty years.

Peter Schnyder is Professor Emeritus at the University of Haute-Alsace and a member of the ILLE. The author of various works on French and Francophone poetry, as well as on André Gide, he has edited, with Robert Kopp, *Gide, Copeau, Schlumberger. L’art de la mise en scène* and, with Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre, *Vertiges de la vitesse*.

Juliette Solvès is a publisher, visual artist and co-editor of the Catalogue raisonné of Maurice Denis’s paintings. In collaboration with Peter Schnyder, she has published the Correspondence between André Gide and Maria van Rysselberghe, as well as an anthology of André Gide’s Journal.

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