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Literature: André Gide's trip to the Congo

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Jean-Claude Perrier prefaced the reissue of André Gide's "Voyage au Congo".

© Editing RFI / Louise Caledec - Arthaud editions

By: Pascal Paradou Follow

While the work of André Gide, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947, is entering the public domain,

, recounts his one-year stay in French Equatorial Africa: from July 21, 1925 to May 14, 1926.

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When it was published in 1927, this road book, a true critique of colonialism and violence, caused a great stir and aroused great excitement in the entire political class.

Albert Londres will leave some time later to investigate.

Guest:

Jean-Claude Perrier, journalist at

and specialist in André Gide.

He prefaces

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