André Gide's writings spanned many genres - "As a master of prose narrative, occasional dramatist and translator, literary critic, letter writer, essayist, and diarist, André Gide provided twentieth-century French literature with one of its most intriguing examples of the man of letters."[REF] .
But as Gide's biographer Alan Sheridan points out, "It is the fiction that lies at the summit of Gide's work."[REF]