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  1. Experience: The Peninsula Hotels · Location: Hong Kong · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Edouard Gides profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.

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  2. Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes the conflict and eventual reconciliation to public view between the two sides of his personality; a straight-laced education and a narrow social moralism split apart these sides.

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  3. The Counterfeiters is a novel-within-a-novel, with Édouard (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 who sometimes addresses the reader directly, weighs in on the characters' motivations or discusses alternate realities.

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    • 1925
  4. André Gide, reared by strict Protestant women, entered adult life in a state of restless religious captivity, married his cousin, contracted tuberculosis, traveled to Algeria for his health, encountered Oscar Wilde, gave free rein to his repressed homosexuality and, instead of then discreetly perishing like Mann's Gustave von Aschenbach, returne...

  5. The Counterfeiters, novel by André Gide, published in French in 1926 as Les Faux-Monnayeurs. Constructed with a greater range and scope than his previous short fiction, The Counterfeiters is Gide’s most complex and intricately plotted work.

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  6. Oct 21, 2023 · In literature, the most prominent writer associated with mise en abîme is French author André Gide, whose most widely recognized example of mise en abîme would be the usage he makes of it in the novel The Counterfeiters (1925).

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  8. The core story revolves around a coin counterfeiting ring centred in a boarding school run by one of the families. The key character is the novelist Edouard, who is a rival of Passavant, a”popular”novelist” but whose theories on the novel (which he expounds) are akin to those of Gide.