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Written by the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, André Gide, this French novel delved back into the concept that Gide popularized as 'act gratuit' or actions that defy conventional explanation. In this book, his main character, Zeus, begins his story by putting 500 francs into an envelope before he sets out to hand it over to another person.