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Andre Gide

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The Resume

    (November 22, 1869-February 19, 1951)
    Wrote ‘The Immoralist' (1902), ‘The Return of the Prodigal Son' (1907), ‘Straight Is the Gate' (1909), ‘The Counterfeiters' (1925) and ‘If It Die' (1926)
    Won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1947)

Why he might be annoying:

    He was a Communist.
    He was a pederast.
    He married his cousin, but idealized her so much that he was unable to ever consummate the marriage.
    When he was 47, he ran off to London with the 16-year-old son of the best man at his wedding.
    He had a daughter out of wedlock.
    The Catholic Church placed his works on the Index of Forbidden Books (1952).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He rejected Communism after touring the Soviet Union (1936).
    His criticism of the near-slavery of the natives in French Equatorial Africa led to reforms of the colonial government.
    His novels gave literary respectability to the formerly taboo subject of homosexuality.
    He wrote, ‘It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one is not.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 82 Votes: 54.88% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 25 Votes: 52.00% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 21 Votes: 47.62% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 16 Votes: 43.75% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 64.29% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 168 Votes: 73.21% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 32 Votes: 59.38% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 25 Votes: 64.00% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 72 Votes: 69.44% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 104 Votes: 43.27% Annoying