The Coiners
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. Usual shelf-wear. Faded spine.
André Gide's The Coiners (Les Faux-Monnayeurs) stands as one of the most daring and architecturally ambitious novels of the twentieth century — a labyrinthine story set in Paris that chronicles the moral corruption and counterfeit lives of a sprawling cast of students, writers, and bourgeois families. At its centre is the young Édouard, an author composing a novel called The Coiners, whose self-referential structure mirrors the very book the reader holds, drawing them into a hall of mirrors where authenticity and deception become indistinguishable. Gide masterfully constructs a work that is simultaneously a coming-of-age tale, a meditation on art and sincerity, and a scathing critique of French society's hypocrisies. His prose is fluid and intellectually charged, weaving multiple narrative threads with a cool, surgical detachment that refuses easy moral judgement. Translated into English by Dorothy Bussy and presented here as part of the Standard Edition of the Works of André Gide — published by Nobel Prize winner Gide's most celebrated prose work — The Coiners remains as unsettling and electrifying today as when it first appeared in 1925.
Author: André Gide
Format: Hardback
Published: 1950, Cassell and Company Ltd
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. Usual shelf-wear. Faded spine.
André Gide's The Coiners (Les Faux-Monnayeurs) stands as one of the most daring and architecturally ambitious novels of the twentieth century — a labyrinthine story set in Paris that chronicles the moral corruption and counterfeit lives of a sprawling cast of students, writers, and bourgeois families. At its centre is the young Édouard, an author composing a novel called The Coiners, whose self-referential structure mirrors the very book the reader holds, drawing them into a hall of mirrors where authenticity and deception become indistinguishable. Gide masterfully constructs a work that is simultaneously a coming-of-age tale, a meditation on art and sincerity, and a scathing critique of French society's hypocrisies. His prose is fluid and intellectually charged, weaving multiple narrative threads with a cool, surgical detachment that refuses easy moral judgement. Translated into English by Dorothy Bussy and presented here as part of the Standard Edition of the Works of André Gide — published by Nobel Prize winner Gide's most celebrated prose work — The Coiners remains as unsettling and electrifying today as when it first appeared in 1925.