by André Gide · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070400829
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«Les Faux-Monnayeurs» is a novel by French writer André Gide, published by Gallimard in paperback (502 pages, in French).
Set in the literary Paris of the 1920s, the novel follows students Bernard Profitendieu and Olivier Molinier. Bernard discovers he is not his father's son, leaves home, and crosses paths with counterfeiters of money and feelings. The plot entangles several characters to explore authenticity, morality, and artistic creation.
The 1997 edition of «Les Faux-Monnayeurs» belongs to the Folio Plus collection (no. 26) and includes a dossier. The work originally appeared in 1925.
For readers of twentieth-century classic French fiction who appreciate novels with complex structures and multiple characters.
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."
