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Title | : | The Counterfeiters |
Author | : | André Gide |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 451 pages |
Published | : | June 12th 1973 by Vintage (first published 1925) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. Novels. 20th Century |
André Gide
Paperback | Pages: 451 pages Rating: 3.86 | 7312 Users | 299 Reviews
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Originally published in 1925, this book became known for the frank sexuality of its contents and its account of middle class French morality. The themes of the book explore the problem of morals, the problem of society and the problems facing writers. An appendix to this edition (Vintage, 1973) contains excerpts from the Gide's notebooks which he kept while writing this book.Particularize Books Conducive To The Counterfeiters
Original Title: | Les Faux-monnayeurs |
ISBN: | 0394718429 (ISBN13: 9780394718422) |
Edition Language: | English |
Setting: | Paris(France) |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 7312 Users | 299 ReviewsCriticism Out Of Books The Counterfeiters
4.5/5 - an excellent book by a masterful writer.Billed as a frank exploration of same-sex deviance and an exposition of the collapse of morals in 1920s France, this book is not quite either. Its a transitional work. Readers wanting a frank look at gay sex are referred to Death on the Installment Plan, where Celines two or three shocking vignettes on the subject have never been outdone. And since kids getting away with anything is the grist of modern media, the general state of morality doesnt especially shock modern readers. But the
The Counterfeiters is a book about writing a book, also called "The Counterfeiters". That is the primary theme of the novel which comes from the title of the book by the writer Edouard. Thus The Counterfeiters is a novel-within-a-novel, with Edouard (the alter ego of Gide) writing a book of the same title. Other stylistic devices are also used, such as an omniscient narrator that sometimes addresses the reader directly, weighs in on the characters' motivations or discusses alternate realities.
This is subtle metafiction since one of the main characters is a writer and the nature of Gide's The Counterfeiters is intellectual, bohemian, philosophical and of its time - for example, Freudian techniques used on a boy are exposited upon and discussed. It follows various people of a social milieu, from schoolboys to new school-leavers, to their parents and relatives, to an old schoolmaster, and is about their relationships and connections: in that sense, it was soap-like. It is also very
This is the surprising interwoven and sexually obscure tale of young men in Paris around the turn of the twentieth century. It was written in 1925 and is a rated classic for the `book within a book' style.Uncle Edouard (38) (Gide styled and as a first person journal) is an author in competition with the notorious, fellow author Robert de Passvant. His half-sister Pauline Molinier, married to Oscar, has sons Olivier, Vincent and George (14). The sons are at college with Olivier befriending
Les faux-Monnayeurs = The Counterfeiters, André Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide)The Counterfeiters, is a 1925 novel by French author André Gide. The Counterfeiters, adorn three parts. Part One: The events in this section take place in Paris, in the author's childhood alleys. Part II: It happens in one of the Swiss villages. Third part: It happens again in Paris; the story time is not more than five months; from the end of spring to the end of the story; and the story takes place before the First
The Counterfeiters is a book for writers, intellectuals or learners. It's an odd book with crisscrossing themes and story lines. Difficult to follow. (I gave up trying to follow it.) Gide, a winner of the Nobel prize for literature, is an old-time writer, the emphasis being on "writer," rather than "novelist." In those days, there weren't that many writers around and writers often were able to put whatever they wanted in their books.And Gide put a lot in this book. It's just not much of a story.
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