Жид, Андре. Собрание сочинений. В четырех томах

Lifetime edition. Complete set of four volumes. With the preservation of the portrait of the author in the first volume.

Volume I: Poems; Prometheus; Immoralist; Treatises; Isabel; Saul; Critical articles. Translation edited by B.A. Krzhevsky and A.A. Frankovsky. 1935 [4], XXXI, 458, [2] p., 1 sheet portrait. - Volume II: King Kandavl; Dungeons of the Vatican; Pastoral Symphony; Dostoevsky; Critical articles. Translation edited by A.A. Frankovsky. 1935 534, [2] p. - Volume III: Counterfeiters: A Novel. Translation by A.A. Frankovsky. 1936 390, [2] p. - Volume IV: Journey to the Congo; Return from Lake Chad; Critical articles. Translation edited by A.A. Frankovsky. 1936 [4], 459, [4] p. / / / Andre Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951) - French writer, prose writer, playwright and essayist, who had a significant impact not only on French literature of the 20th century, but also on the mentality of several generations of French people; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1947). In the first half of the 1930s, Andre Gide repeatedly spoke out in support of the Land of Soviets, and in the Union itself he was ranked among the numerous "friends of the USSR" at that time: in 1935-1936, a collection of his works was published in four volumes. In the summer of 1936, Gide visited the Soviet Union; everything turned out to be not as it seemed to him from the enthusiastic reviews of numerous pilgrims. He shared his impressions in the essay “Return from the USSR” published at the end of the same year, in which he noted the lack of freedom of thought, tight control over literature and public life, some frightening features of the new Soviet man. After that, the name of the writer was banned in the USSR, his books were not published until the “perestroika”.