Gide, Andre: The Vatican Cellars

André Gide was a giant of twentieth-century French literature. An innovator of the novelistic form, he undertook a life-long exploration of morality in his work, and was a major influence on the writing of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Gide was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. Julian Evans is a writer and translator. His most recent book is Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis.