He created a character who gets a job as a secretary after using a dropped checkroom ticket to steal another man's bag.
In a novel by this author, a character remembers watching sailors cut off the hands of people reaching for lifeboats during the wreck of the Bourgogne. That novel by him contains a strange chapter in which a character is led around by an angel whom he then wrestles for an entire night. One of this author's protagonists jumps into a draining pond to catch eels and enjoys poaching rabbits on his own Normandy estate. He created a character who gets a job as a secretary after using a dropped checkroom ticket to steal another man's bag. That novel by this author ends with Boris (*) shooting himself in a classroom during a botched initiation rite. In one of his novels, the protagonist watches Moktir steal a pair of scissors from his wife Marceline and develops an interest in Arab boys while recovering from tuberculosis. For 10 points, name this French author of The Counterfeiters and The Immoralist.
In a novel by this author, a character remembers watching sailors cut off the hands of people reaching for lifeboats during the wreck of the Bourgogne.
André Gide