How is it that in a short space of time I have collected enough Anatole France books to rival the amount of books I have by Andre Gide & yet more have heard & have been influenced by Gide? I collected Gide before I knew about Nobel Prizes but I have somehow collected roughly the same amount of France within a few months & still his influence seems to be invisible. What is the explanation for the silence about France, compared to Gide, when he is still is very much in circulation? It is very true to think that one Nobel Prize winner remember is another Nobel Prize winner forgotten; but France hasn’t been forgotten so how can he be so little mentioned?
