Abstract: The Journal by André Gide was evidence of this amateur pianist’s passion for his Chopin’s dual figure, romantic and classical, Polish and French, but definitely an anti-Wagnerian one. From Wagner to Stravinsky, Gide grew up to the voice of Nietzsche’s concept of pleasure which was close to the modern homeostasis. To Gide, the music, either as writing or as a performance, remained not only a literature concept or analogon but also a symbol of poïesis.
