His first major work, called by Gide a récit ("narrative"), but in fact more complex than that title suggests, was The Immoralist ( L'Immoraliste), published twice in 1902. Homosexuality, he turned to the literature of moral and spiritual values. For a variety of largely personal reasons, including the discovery of his A bright schoolboy, he had as a young man considered a career as a concert pianist, and he had written intensely lyrical, then allegorical works before. In 1947 he won the Nobel Prize, largely on account of the novel. He set out in 1919 to write a great novel, which he called The Counterfeiters ( Les Fauxmonnayeurs) and which he published in 1926 in the same year he published an account of how he wrote it. He published his own diary, and he was always aware of himself as the author of the work he was writing, even when he used a narrative voice, and of the multiplicity of meanings that could be conveyed in a single sentence or even a single word. André Gide was an exceedingly self-conscious writer.
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