Two U.S. Reviews of Andre Gide's Corydon (1949-50), by Jonathan Ned Katz

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An exhibit featuring excerpts of two U.S. responses to the publication, in English translation by Hugh Gibb, of Andre Gide's defense of homosexuality in Corydon, with comments by Frank Beach (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1950). Corydon was originally published privately from 1911 to 1920 and then publicly (in France) in 1924. Gide won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. Note that the year 1950 also saw the U.S. English publication of Gide's The School For Wives, Robert, and Genevieve, or The Unfinished Confidence, trans. Dorothy Bussy (New York: Knopf, 1950). Originally published on OutHistory in 2023.

1940-1960

Katz, Jonathan Ned

Gide, Andre

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