The Counterfeiters
André Gide, 1925
A novel about a novelist writing a novel, and a group of young people trying on love, faith and false identities.
André Gide
1869–1951
Gide called The Counterfeiters his first novel, though he was fifty-six; his earlier fiction he classified as récits, or tales.
Feels like identity, curiosity and society.
The relief of discovering you owe nothing to the people who raised you.
Owing to an accidental discovery I happened to make this afternoon, I have become aware that I must cease to regard you as my father. This is an immense relief to me. Realizing as I do how little affection I feel for you, I have for a long time past been thinking myself an unnatural son; I prefer knowing I am not your son at all. Books by André Gide
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