Dingo the Dissident

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Monday 11 March 2013

On André Gide, the great 'Immoralist'.

Gide by Vallotton.

 "...over the years he had antagonised
- amongst others -
Catholics, Communists,
Italian fascists, Spanish falangists,
colonialists, homophobes
and xenophobes.

"By the same token
he occupied a position for literary
and political critics similar to that
of a village lamp-post for neigbourhood dogs."

- Frederic Spotts: THE SHAMEFUL PEACE :
how French artists and intellectuals survived the Nazi Occupation.

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