The most famous French writer, Nobel Prize laureate in 1947, classic of world literature Andre Gide (1869-1951) liked to call himself a “man of dialogue,” “a man of contradictions.” He never offered readers specific moral decisions; on the contrary, he always looked for answers to countless questions about the meaning of life, about man and fate. The multifaceted talent of Andre Gide is reflected in his bright, sometimes grotesque works, the genre of which is not always definable.

The first volume of the Collected Works includes the works: “Treatise on Narcissus”, “The Wanderings of Urian”, “The Experience of Love” , or Treatise on the Futility of Desires, Swamps, Earthly Delicacies, Ill-Bound Prometheus and treatises created by Andre Gide over the years.