The Counterfeiters

12 hrs. 13 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author André Gide

Narrator Pavel Maslakov

Description

«Les Faux-Monnayeurs» (1925) is a work that is significant both for the oeuvre of André Gide and for French literature of the first half of the 20th century as a whole. A novel that, in many ways, anticipated the motifs that later became central in the writings of the existentialists. The tangled relationships of three families—representatives of the high bourgeoisie brought together by crime, vice, and a labyrinth of self-destructive passions—form the backdrop for the coming-of-age story of two young men—two childhood friends, each of whom will have to go through their own, very difficult, school of “education of the feelings.”

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