André Gide, un héritage bourgeois et protestant = (Andre Gide, a middle-class and protestant legacy)

Abstract

Born in Paris, André Gide, was however derived from two strains transplanted, his mother’s family was from Normandy and his paternal family from Languedoc. The differences in the two families, through which itself wanted to explain his tenure ambiguity and his vocation as an artist, however, were not so great; Gide was a child of the upper middle class and born of two Protestant lineage. This legacy played a fundamental role in his psychology. Therefore, it seems particularly interesting to go back as far as possible in his childhood and reveal the genesis of the environment in which he was born, to better understand the motivations and mechanisms of his literary creation.

Étant né à Paris, André Gide était pourtant issu de deux souches transplantées; sa famille maternelle était d´origine normande et sa famille paternelle d´origine languedocienne. Les différences de ses deux familles, à travers lesquelles lui-même voulut expliquer son ambigüité foncière et sa vocation d´artiste, n´étaient pourtant pas si grandes; Gide était un enfant de la bonne bourgeoisie et né de deux lignées protestantes. Cet héritage joua un rôle fondamental sur sa psychologie. C´est pourquoi, il nous semble particulièrement intéressant de remonter aussi loin que possible dans son enfance et de révéler la genèse du milieu dans lequel il naquit, afin de mieux comprendre les motivations et les mécanismes de sa création littéraire.