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Nobel Prize in Literature のーべるぶんがくしょう

Edition 40 (1947)

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André Gide あんどれ じっど Winner

An experimental novel inspired by a counterfeit-coin scandal and a teenage suicide. Built around Edouard's notebook, it follows a web of young friendships, desire, and the unstable boundary between truth and falsehood.

Where truth and falsehood exchange places, the novel begins to question itself.

352 pages
metafictionmultiple perspectivestruth and falsehoodyouthmoral ambiguity