André GIDE, at death's door, disillusioned, gives his news.
"My heart is faltering, but I still allow you to kiss me."
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"My heart is faltering, but I still allow you to kiss me."
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Andre Gide (1869.1951).
Autographed letter signed to Renée Minet.
A page in-4°. Autograph envelope.
Grasse. September 7, 1950.
"My heart is faltering, but I still allow you to kiss me."
André Gide, old and ill, gives some news to his friend.
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“Dear Renée, ‘Disapproval’? Certainly not. But I was, and still am, too tired to write. And it would have required such a long letter, with endless ‘considerations’ (but none of them pleasant). ‘Prometheus’? I believe that’s already been covered on the radio. What about your Leonardo?”
No, no, I'm not feeling wonderful at all , and this very morning I had to call the doctor in Vence (who, incidentally, reassured me: it was just a false sore throat). My heart is faltering, but I still allow you to kiss me. André Gide.
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Gide died less than five months after this letter, on February 19, 1951 in his Parisian apartment on rue Vaneau, at the age of 81.