![]() ![]() His life goes downhill as he murders her and goes insane. ![]() The collapse of morality is illustrated with Eduoard's nephew Vincent, who deserts his lover Laura, a married woman, and runs away with Lillian, the mistress of Count Robert de Passavant. The story of Edouard writing his novel demonstrates his search for knowledge, yet as he associates with a group of his own adolescent relatives it appears as an artificial arrangement one that displays the effects upon society of youth's corruption of traditional standards and values. Thus we have entered a world where we cannot trust our senses - what is counterfeit and what is real? However, there is also the story of a group of boys who are passing counterfeit coins throughout Paris. 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. Thus The Counterfeiters is a novel-within-a-novel, with Edouard (the alter ego of Gide) writing a book of the same title. That is the primary theme of the novel which comes from the title of the book by the writer Edouard. The Counterfeiters is a book about writing a book, also called "The Counterfeiters". ![]()
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