'It's only after our death that we shall really be able to hear' The measured tone of hopeless nihilism that pervades The Counterfeiters quickly shatters any image of André Gide as the querulous and impious Buddha to a quarter-century of intellectuals. In sharp and brilliant prose a seedy, cynical and gratuitously alarming narrative is developed, involving a wide range of otherwise harmless and mainly middle-to-upper-class Parisians. But the setting could be anywhere. From puberty through adolescence to death, The Counterfeiters is a rare encyclopedia of human disorder, weakness and despair.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: André Gide
EAN: 9780140180930
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES: 352
WEIGHT: 258 g
HEIGHT: 198 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 1990-07-26
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GENRE: FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Literary
WIDTH: 129 mm
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Book Themes:
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary