Abstract
Whether trapped in Nazi-occupied Tunis or enduring an onslaught of attacks in the press, André Gide spent much of the Second World War either literally or figuratively under siege. The writer spent the first two years of the war in the unoccupied south of France, but denunciations from the political Right led him to take refuge in Tunis. His account of the Allied liberation of that city served, in turn, as a pretext for attacks during the postwar purge. This essay will examine the convergence of literature, politics, and sexuaHty in Gide’s Journal from the 1942–1943 siege of Tunis and in the post-armistice and post-Liberation attacks on the writer. It will focus on Gide’s attempt to comprehend the war by means of a domestic allegory and François Reymond’s bid to dislodge Gide’s explanation in L’Envers du Journal de Gide: Tunis 1942–43.
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Van Tuyl, J. (2000). Gide under Siege: Domestic Conflict and Political Allegory in the World War II Journal. In: Conner, T. (eds) André Gide’s Politics: Rebellion and Ambivalence. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62532-1_13
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