by André Gide · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070349609
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«Les faux-monnayeurs» is the novel by André Gide, published by Folio in paperback (503 pages, in French).
In the literary Paris of the twenties, Bernard discovers he is not his father's son, leaves home and takes refuge with his friend Olivier. His path crosses with counterfeiters, fake money and sentimental deceptions, in a choral story that weaves lies around authenticity, morality and identity.
Edition published in 2008 in the Folio Plus Classique collection, with a dossier by Frédéric Maget and image reading by Agnès Verlet.
Recommended for high school classes in France by the edition's teaching materials; also for readers of twentieth-century French literature.
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. Author of more than 50 books, he was described in his New York Times obituary as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."
