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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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Les Faux-Monnayeurs: un roman d'André Gide
Jan 31, 2022, Books on Demand
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Los falsificadores de moneda
2009, Alba, ALBA, Alba Editorial
in Spanish
- 1ª ed
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Faux Monnayeurs
December 31, 1998, Cle International, Nathan
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in French
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Les Faux-monnayeurs
March 13, 1997, Gallimard
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in French
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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
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Les Faux-Monnayeurs (Folio Ser.: No.879)
December 1972, Schoenhof Foreign Books
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The counterfeiters (Les faux-monnayeurs) translated from the French of André Gide by Dorothy Bussy, introduction by Raymond Weaver.
1931, The Modern library
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Les faux-monnayeurs: roman
1925, Librairie Gallimard, Éditions de la nouvelle revue française
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