André Gide
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Birth Name: André Paul Guillaume Gide
Born: 22 November 1869 Died: 19 February 1951
Country of origin: France
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Nobel Prize in Literature
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Anti-communists who were once Marxists
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1. Paris 1900 (1948)
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2. Fanny (1932)
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3. Dieu a choisi Paris (1969)
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"During the 1930s, he briefly became a communist, or more precisely, a fellow traveler (he never formally joined the Communist Party). As a distinguished writer sympathizing with the cause of communism, he was invited to tour the Soviet Union as a guest of the Soviet Union of Writers. The tour disillusioned him and he subsequently became quite critical of Soviet communism. This criticism of communism caused him to lose socialist friends, especially when he made a clean break with it in Retour de "
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