3rd of September, 2003 POST·MERIDIEM 02:17

André Gide’s Si le grain ne meurt  is possibly the most annoying autobiography I’ve read. The man made a useless, insensitive, snobbish child and I’m prepared to believe that he did say that suicide was “« louable » for certain people” to someone who was to kill himself a few months later. Why he felt the need to share this state of affairs with the world escapes me.

Addendum: [1] sums up my feelings on it, exactly.

[1] http://​www.​gidiana.​net/​Comptes_rendus/​Presse_SGM/​CR_Gourmont_SGM.​html su