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September 25, 2025 | History
An edition of Les Faux-monnayeurs (1925)

The counterfeiters

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A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.

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Publisher
Knopf
Language
English, French
Pages
365

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Faux Monnayeurs
Faux Monnayeurs
December 31, 1998, Cle International, Nathan
Paperback in French
Cover of: Wei bi zhi zao zhe
Wei bi zhi zao zhe
1994, Shu hua chu ban shi yeh yu xian gong si, xing xiao Gui guan tu shu gu fen yu xian gong si
in Chinese - Chu ban
Cover of: Les Faux-Monnayeurs (Folio Ser.: No.879)
Les Faux-Monnayeurs (Folio Ser.: No.879)
December 1972, Schoenhof Foreign Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: The counterfeiters
The counterfeiters
1966, Penguin, PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
in English
Cover of: The Counterfeiters (Les Faux-monnayeurs)
The Counterfeiters (Les Faux-monnayeurs)
1927-01-01, Knopf
in English
Cover of: The counterfeiters
The counterfeiters
1927, Knopf
in English and French
Cover of: Les Faux-Monnayeurs
Les Faux-Monnayeurs
1925-01-01, Gallimard
in English

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Edition Notes

Translation of Les faux-monnayeurs.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.G3613 Co

The Physical Object

Pagination
365 p.
Number of pages
365

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL13533206M
Internet Archive
counterfeiters00gide
LCCN
27019182
OCLC/WorldCat
1631721
LibraryThing
3736280

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL630997W

Work Description

The Counterfeiters (French: Les Faux-monnayeurs) is a 1925 novel by French author André Gide, first published in Nouvelle Revue Française. With many characters and crisscrossing plotlines, its main theme is that of the original and the copy, and what differentiates them – both in the external plot of the counterfeit gold coins and in the portrayal of the characters' feelings and their relationships. 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. Therefore, the book has been seen as a precursor of the nouveau roman. The structure of the novel was written to mirror "Cubism", in that it interweaves between several different plots and portrays multiple points of view.

The novel features a considerable number of bisexual or gay male characters – the adolescent Olivier and at least to a certain unacknowledged degree his friend Bernard, in all likelihood their schoolfellows Gontran and Philippe, and finally the adult writers the Comte de Passavant (who represents an evil and corrupting force) and the (more benevolent) Édouard. An important part of the plot is its depiction of various possibilities of positive and negative homoerotic or homosexual relationships.

Initially received coldly on its appearance, perhaps because of its homosexual themes and its unusual composition, The Counterfeiters has gained reputation in the intervening years and is now generally counted among the Western canon of literature.

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