Friend and Foe Marcel Proust and Andre Gide

In Friend and Foe, Frederick Harris examines the life and works of French authors Marcel Proust and André Gide. Proust and Gide clearly defined French literature in the first part of the twentieth century. This book contains the whole of correspondence between Proust and Gide, some letters translated in English for the first time. By looking at Proust and Gide simultaneously, looking at Proust and the whole coterie of writers and critics that gathered around Gide at the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), Harris provides a new context in which to assess both Proust and Gide. It forces consideration in a more incisive way of the key issues in both their careers: the Dreyfus Affair, World War I, homosexuality, and their art.

Frederick J. Harris is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. He holds a B.A. from Fordham and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia. He has been Chair of the Division of Humanities at Fordham College at Lincoln Center and Chair of the bi-campus Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Rose Hill and Lincoln Center