by André Gide · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070741168
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«Journal des faux-monnayeurs» is André Gide's literary diary, published by Gallimard in paperback (127 pages, in French).
The book collects the diary André Gide wrote while composing «Les faux-monnayeurs». In its pages he dialogues with the characters as he creates them, records doubts and narrative decisions, and reveals his creative mechanism, with the irony and critical eye that characterize the author.
The work was originally published in 1927 and belongs to Gallimard's L'Imaginaire collection.
For readers of French literature and for those who want to glimpse how a great novelist works.
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. Author of more than 50 books, he was described in his New York Times obituary as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."
