Novel by Andre Gide, published in French in 1926 as Les Faux-Monnayeurs. Constructed with a greater range and scope than his previous short fiction, The Counterfeiters is Gide's most complex and intricately plotted work. It is a novel within a novel, concerning the relatives and teachers of a group of schoolboys who are subjected to corrupting influences both in and out of the classroom. In a progression of unconnected scenes and events, the novel approximates the texture of daily life. Schoolboys of diverse ages and dispositions attend the Pension Azais. Some are suspected of having attempted to circulate counterfeit coins. Edouard, an author writing a novel entitled The Counterfeiters, observes that if a counterfeit coin is thought to be authentic, it is accepted as valuable; if it is found to be counterfeit, it is perceived as worthless. Therefore, he concludes, value is wholly a matter of perception and has nothing to do with reality. The counterfeiters are thus representative of those who disguise themselves with false personalities, either in unconscious self-deception or through conscious, hypocritical conformity to convention.
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
André Guide (1869-1951) nasceu em Paris, numa família da alta burguesia huguenote e católica. Órfão de pai aos onze anos, depressa se refugia na literatura. Revoltado contra a sua educação puritana, a obra de Gide assentaria nessa tensão não resolvida entre uma disciplina artística rígida, um moralismo puritano, a indulgência sensual e uma procura de códigos morais próprios. Foi tradutor de Shakespeare, Whitman, Conrad e Rilke, bem como um influente e polémico crítico literário. Em 1947, é galardoado com o Prémio Nobel de Literatura «por retratar, na sua obra, a condição humana com um destemido amor pela verdade e um profundo conhecimento da sua psicologia».
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