The Counterfeiters. A Book for Reading in French

The novel "The Counterfeiters" is one of the most significant works of existential French prose of the 19th century. Its author, Nobel laureate André Gide, endowed each character with a complex fate and, through the innovative technique of "the novel... within a novel," introduced into the narrative the diaries of the writer Édouard with reflections on an unwritten novel of the same name. The author, torn by the contradictions of the sensual and the spiritual, confessed to the reader. Where is reality, and where is imagination? What is elegant but immoral, and what is genuine but ugly?
The search for freedom, self-destructive passions, crime...
The unadapted complete text of the novel in French is addressed to students of language universities and all lovers of existential prose who are proficient in French.