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A review by manda2491
The Counterfeiters by André Gide
2.0
The Counterfeiters by Gide is a work of metafiction – at once the novel itself and a story about a novel, by the same name, being written by Edouard (or the guise of Gide). The novel can be a bit difficult to fully comprehend at times because of the sheer volume of characters, families, and intersecting plotlines (some reviewers have compared the novel to a soap opera and I would agree).
The novel certainly shows it's age as it obsesses over purity, the dichotomy of good and evil, and the culture of schoolboys while it's blatant homosexuality is kept on the hush hush.
The novel certainly shows it's age as it obsesses over purity, the dichotomy of good and evil, and the culture of schoolboys while it's blatant homosexuality is kept on the hush hush.