Franklin Library: Andre Gide: The Counterfeiters

Franklin Library FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of Andre Gide's "The Counterfeiters" a Limited edition, Translated by Dorothy Bussey, Illustrated by Gonzalo Fonseca, one of the GREATEST BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTRUY series, published in 1979.  Bound in a  Most Gorgeous green Moroccan cowhide leather, the book has French silk moire endleaves, satin book marker,  22 kt. gold gilding on top edge---in near FINE condition.  André Paul Guillaume Gide,  who lived from 1869-1951, was a French author and winner of the NOBEL PRIZE in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars. Gide's works expose the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a strait-laced education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. "The Counterfeiters" was originally published in 1925.  With many characters and crisscrossing plotlines, its main theme is that of the original and the copy, and what differentiates them — both in the external plot of the counterfeit gold coins and in the portrayal of the characters' feelings and their relationships. "The Counterfeiters" is a novel-within-a-novel, with EDOUARD (the alter ego of Gide) intending to write 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. The novel features a considerable number of bixexual or GAY male characters — the adolescent OLIVIER and at least to a certain unacknowledged degree his friend BERNARD, in all likeliness their schoolfellows GONTRAN and PHILIPPE, and finally the adult writers Comte de Passavant (who represents an evil and corrupting force) and the benevolent Edouard. An important part of the plot is its depiction of various possibilities of positive and negative homoerotic or homosexual relationships. Initially received coldly on its appearance, perhaps because of its homosexual themes and its unusual composition, The Counterfeiters has gained reputation in the intervening years and is now generally counted among the Western Canon of literature. FOLKS, this is a FABULOUS volume---an EXTREMELY RARE title.   FREE SHIPPING in the U.S. with media postage or $10.00 priority shipping or actual charges world-wide.  Seller WILL combine multiple bids for postal savings.  Seller accepts money orders, cashier's checks,  PayPal, or personal checks---held until check clears bank---or immediate shipment with 50 positive feedbacks on Ebay. Good luck and see my other Easton Press and Franklin Library books.

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