The Counterfeiters
by Andre Gide
Vintage Books/Random House reprint, 1973
mass market paperback
The Counterfeiters, published in 1926 when Gide was fifty-seven, shocked many by its honest treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle-class France. Its three themes - the problem of morals, the problem of the literary artist, and the problem of society - are strikingly illuminated as the protagonist, a young artist, pursues a search for knowledge in the relationships of his own adolescent relatives.
Included in this edition is Gide's journal of The Counterfeiters, the day book he kept during the writing of the book, which provides a unique view into the mind of a great novelist at work.
(copied from the back cover)
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