Needles and pins entre écrivains : les jalousies érotico-littéraires d’André Gide et de Jean Cocteau

This article explores the rivalry between Gide and Cocteau, in which their jealousy for Marc Allégret affects their judgements over the other’s literary work. The exchange between the two authors sheds a different light on homosexual relations and on the role of jealousy in love than Proust’s work does.