André Gide - Autumn Leaves

That the life of the “soul” prolongs itself beyond the dissolution of the flesh, for me, is inadmissible and unthinkable, and something against which my reason protests; as well as against the incessant expanding of souls.

1See in fine .

1This is the first time I use that terrible word, the only one that fits.

The following texts first appeared:

Spring, in one volume, (Flammarion) “The Garland of the Years” (texts from André Gide, Jules Romains, Colette and François Mauriac), 1941; then in the magazine Verve, series II, No. 5–6, p. 15.

Youth, in the Nouvelle Revue Française , Sept. 1931.

My Mother, in the magazine Quatre-Vents, Feb. 1942.

The Day of September 27, in the magazine Commune, Jan. 1936.

Acquasanta (with Youth), in a volume entitled “Two Tales,” in a limited edition, 1938.

Dindiki, in the magazine Commerce, IX, autumn 1926.

Joseph Conrad, in the Nouvelle Revue Française, Dec. 1, 1924.

Francis Jammes, in the Nouvelle Revue Française, December 1, 1938.

The Radiance of Paul Valéry, in the daily paper Le Figaro, July 25, 1945.

Paul Valéry, in the magazine l’Arche, October 1945.

Henri Ghéon, in the weekly Gavroche, June 14, 1945.

Eugène Dabit, in the Nouvelle Revue Française, Dec. 1, 1938.

Christian Beck, in the Belgian magazine La Nervie, special number devoted to Christian Beck, 1931.

Antonin Artaud, in the daily Combat, March 19, 1948, and in the special number devoted to Antonin Artaud of the magazine 84, 1948, No. 5–6.

Le Mercure de France, in the number 1000 of the Mercure de France, bearing the combined dates: July 1940 — December 1946.

La Revue Blanche, in the magazine Labyrinthe, 1946.

Goethe, in the Nouvelle Revue Française, March 1, 1932.

The Teaching of Poussin, as an introduction to the illustrated volume “Poussin” (edition Au Divan) 1945.

Lautréamont, as an introduction to the volume “The Case of Lautréamont” ( Le Disque vert, Paris-Brussels, R. van den Berg), 1925.

Arthur Rimbaud, in the magazine Po é sie 41, No. 6, 1941 (in answer to the inquiry: “Did Arthur Rimbaud die fifty years ago?”).

Three meetings with Verlaine, in the magazine Fontaine, June 1942.

Literary Memories and Problems of To-day, in pamphlet form, with the Lettres Françaises, Beyrouth, 1946, and in l’Arche, No. 18–19, August-September 1946.

Preface to Night Flight, as an introduction to Saint-Exupéry’s work, 1931.

Some Recent Writings of Thomas Mann, in the weekly Marianne, Sept. 22, 1937.

Preface for a French translation of “Morgenlandfahrt” by Hermann Hesse, “A Trip to the Orient,” translated by Jean Lambert. CalmanLévy, 1947; then in the magazine Paru, No. 50, January 1949.

Letter-Preface to Chants de Départ by Jean Lacaze, as an introduction to the volume (Finham, edit. Chantal), 1947.

Justice or Charity, in the daily Le Figaro, Feb. 25, 1945.

Courage, in the daily Combat, April 28, 1948.

Truth, in the daily Combat, April 29, 1948.

Two Imaginary Interviews, in the volume “Attendu que …” (Algiers, Edit. Charlot), 1943; in France, in l’Arche, No. 11, Nov. 1945.

Leaves, the first part in “Attendu que …” and l’Arche, No. 11; the second part only in the pamphlet “Two Imaginary Interviews” (Charlot), 1946.

Autumn Leaves, in the magazine La Table Ronde, No. 6, June 1948.

Abélard 205

Adam Paul 145

Aragon 179

Aristotle 219

Arnaud Michel 153

Artaud Antonin 136-138

d’Auvevilly Barbey 161

Balzac 96

Barrès Maurice 73, 98, 163, 196–204, 211, 252

Barrès Philippe 201, 203

Baudelaire 160, 161, 181, 196, 207

Bauman 251

Banville Théodore de 186

Bellori 166

Beck Christian 131-135

Benda 241

Bernanos 207

Bernard Tristan 146

Bernin 167

Billy André 187

Bloy Léon 207

Blum Léon 30

Bonheur Raymond 86

Bonnard 145

Bossuet 107, 161, 183, 206, 268

Bourdaloue 107

Brantôme 257

Breton 179

Bretonne Restif de la 103

Brienne Louis-Henri de Loménic, Count de 173, 174

Brontë Emily 181

Browning 274

Buddha 243

Byron 198

Camus 211

Casals 187

Casanova 103

Chateaubriand 148, 196, 207

Chardin 168

Chaveau Léopold 125

Chénier André 222

Chesterton 286

Christy 60

Claudel 71, 86, 177, 181, 207, 209, 286

Confucius 243

Conrad Joseph 70-75

Corneille 164, 246

Courbet 176

Curie 180

Dabit Eugène 121-130

Darwin 8

Delacroix 167, 168, 177

Descartes 98, 164, 168, 206

Desjardins Paul 164

Dickens 101

Diderot 97

Dominique 168

Dostoyefsky 73, 111

Edison 180

Félibien 160, 163, 166

Fénéon 144, 146

Flaubert 72, 98

Fontaine Arthur 85

Fort Paul 24, 187

France Anatole 255

Frank Waldo 40

Galileo 247, 268

Gaulle General de 239

Gélée Claude 164

Gericault 173

Ghéon 24, 81, 83, 116-120

Giono 126, 249

Giorgione 74

Giraudoux 199

El Greco 126, 198

Goethe 111, 114, 147–159, 254, 255, 256, 259

Gorki Maxim 37, 124

Gosse Edmond 45

Gouilloux Louis 122, 127, 128

Gourmont Remy de 145

Gozzoli Benozzo 48

Heine 230

Herbart Pierre 122, 129

Herder 148

Heredia 186, 187, 203

Hérold Ferdinand 133, 197

Hesse Hermann 227-234

Hitler 201, 242

Hoelderlin 255

Homer 112, 177, 197

Hugo 171, 207

Hourticq Louis 165, 173, 174

Huysmans 207

Ingres 166, 168, 173

Jammes Francis 76–90, 207

Jarry 132, 133, 139, 145

Jouhaudeau 249

Joyce 181

Kant 200

Kipling 71

Lacaze Jean 235-240

La Fontaine 177

Lamartine 207

La Rochfoucauld 103

La Tour 142

Lautréamont 179

Laforgue 46

La Bruyère 191

Larbaud Valéry 57, 71

Last Jef 43, 44, 122, 127

Lazare Bernard 197

Léautaud de 141, 142, 209

Leboy 106

Lejner A. 40

Lemaître Jules 73

Leopoldi 255

Lessing 148

Lewes 150

Lobatchewsky 101

Loti Pierre 199

Louys Pierre 33, 108, 149, 186, 187

Madrus 66, 145

Malebranche 241

Mallarmé 103, 104, 167, 181, 186, 192–195, 197

Malraux 165

Manet 176

Mann Thomas 221-226

Marcel Gabriel 207

Maritain 207

Martin du Guard Roger 125, 129, 211

Massis 202

Matisse 169

Mauclair Camille 133

Maupassant 72

Mauriac 207

Maurras 200, 203

Maxwell 101

Melville 181

Mercure de France 132, 139–143, 145

Mérouvel Charles 30

Michaud Henri 111

Michelet 207

Milton 45, 51

Mirabeau 145

Miraki 40

Molière 177

Monet 169

Montaigne 111, 126, 205, 206, 256, 257, 258

Montesquieu 103, 210

Montherlant 249, 256, 257

Natanson Brothers: Thadée, Alexandre, Alfred 144

Nietzsche 104, 156, 157, 158, 159, 255

Nouvelle Revue Française 39, 40, 78, 84, 108, 141, 208, 209, 286

Ohnet Georges 73

Oken 60

Pascal 110, 205, 206, 230, 247