عنوان

The counterfeiters /

0140180931

9780140180930

b761280

The counterfeiters /

[Book]

André Gide ; translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy.

London :

Penguin Books,

1966.

345 pages ;

20 cm.

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Originally published: Cassel, 1931.

This novel within a novel, concerns the relatives and teachers of a group of schoolboys who are subjected to corrupting influences both in and out of the classroom. The boys attend the Pension Azais where 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.

English fiction-- Translations from French.

French fiction-- Translations into English.

Authors, Fiction.

English fiction, Translations from French.

French fiction, Translations into English.

French fiction.

Gide, André,1869-1951.

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