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    <body><![CDATA[The Counterfeiters, by Andre Gide, is a story about several characters all interconnected through misconnections, subterfuge, lies, and artifice. <br/><br/>I didn't really like the book - I found the interconnections too pat and forced - for me, it's too similar to the breathless shock formula use...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42063549">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A novel as much about writing as it is about coded homosexuality in 1920's France (a time, lest we forget, that Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas just about ruled that town). Two rival writers, Edouard and Robert, fall for the same impressionable young boy, Olivier, who decides to run off with Robe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31910418">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Gide, Andre.  THE COUNTERFEITERS.  (1925).  ****.  This is an extremely complex novel from this distinguished French author (1869-1951) who had apparently published over thirty books during his career.  This is the only one he acknowledged as being a novel.  I remember, though, being assigned “The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81998499">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book I couldn't figure out. The feeling I get after reading it was similar to the time I read American Psycho. On the surface, you wonder, what's going on? when is this going to get interesting? And you might leave disappointed. There's something subliminal about the Counterfeiters that is beyo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64634949">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[when a reader is hooked, the worst thing the author can do is cut the line.  tragically, that's what happens here.<br/><br/>what starts out as an interesting entanglement of multiple characters with interwoven dilemmas sadly devolves into near soap opera attempts at 'shock'.  gide does a great job...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77370390">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[  According to Andre Gide himself, <em>The Counterfeiters (Les Faux Monnayeurs)</em> was the only novel he ever wrote.   (He called his other fictional works &quot;stories&quot; and &quot;novellas,&quot; although some are of quite substantial length).  This novel is  the story of a group of young boys in a 1...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61680067">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read in the original French, in 1963 or so, and then again a couple of years later. I was attracted at that age to Gide's struggle, in literary form, with his need to belong to bourgeois society whileout, somehow not denying his true inner self. It's been a long time, but I seem to remember that the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79250533">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Qu'un jeune garçon apprenne qu'il n'est pas le fils de son père, qu'il décide de ne pas se présenter à ses examens et de partir au hasard de certaines rencontres : jusque-là, rien que de très commun. Mais qu'il croise la route tordue de faussaires en tout genre, d'enfants qui trafiquent de la fausse monnaie ou de tricheurs ès sentiments, et l'histoire se transforme en une folle épopée où les différents fils se mêlent et s'emmêlent pour mieux finir par démêler tous les mensonges. <p>Singulier roman que cette croisée de destins et de personnages : il surprend et fascine, tant il ne ressemble à rien de connu tout en conservant une structure parfaitement attendue. Manière de symphonie, où Gide, qui tenait <em>Les Faux-Monnayeurs</em> pour l'un de ses textes les plus aboutis, orchestre les thèmes qui lui sont chers : l'adolescence et ses tourments, les troubles d'identité, mais surtout le mensonge, le faux sous toutes ses facettes, qu'il débusque avec acharnement, pour qu'enfin les masques tombent. <em>--Karla Manuele</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Gide's most famous novels, and one of his more &quot;modern&quot; - mostly in the way it's written and conceived, which were quite new and original in the twenties. It remains quite arresting, perhaps more for how it is constructed than for its actual story - although the characters (some bas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38254578">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, God bless the French! (I wonder if it's the first time anyone has ever written that.)<br/><br/>I happen to love French writers and, thusly prejudiced, found this book by Andre Gide to be exceptional. A fascinating novel of interlocking characters and their crisscrossing story lines that is wid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42439921">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just couldn't get into this at all. I went three quarters of the way through it, didn't like anybody, didn't hate anybody, didn't care about anybody. Then I set it down and read some trashy sci-fi novels that, even though they took place millenia from now, seemed to tell me more about my own life ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81507985">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Qu'un jeune garçon apprenne qu'il n'est pas le fils de son père, qu'il décide de ne pas se présenter à ses examens et de partir au hasard de certaines rencontres : jusque-là, rien que de très commun. Mais qu'il croise la route tordue de faussaires en tout genre, d'enfants qui trafiquent de la fausse monnaie ou de tricheurs ès sentiments, et l'histoire se transforme en une folle épopée où les différents fils se mêlent et s'emmêlent pour mieux finir par démêler tous les mensonges. <p>Singulier roman que cette croisée de destins et de personnages : il surprend et fascine, tant il ne ressemble à rien de connu tout en conservant une structure parfaitement attendue. Manière de symphonie, où Gide, qui tenait <em>Les Faux-Monnayeurs</em> pour l'un de ses textes les plus aboutis, orchestre les thèmes qui lui sont chers : l'adolescence et ses tourments, les troubles d'identité, mais surtout le mensonge, le faux sous toutes ses facettes, qu'il débusque avec acharnement, pour qu'enfin les masques tombent. <em>--Karla Manuele</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this many years ago in my early twenties. Should reread it, probably a lot better than I remember. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read more than 10 years, remember savoring it. Must read again.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Qu'un jeune garçon apprenne qu'il n'est pas le fils de son père, qu'il décide de ne pas se présenter à ses examens et de partir au hasard de certaines rencontres : jusque-là, rien que de très commun. Mais qu'il croise la route tordue de faussaires en tout genre, d'enfants qui trafiquent de la fausse monnaie ou de tricheurs ès sentiments, et l'histoire se transforme en une folle épopée où les différents fils se mêlent et s'emmêlent pour mieux finir par démêler tous les mensonges. <p>Singulier roman que cette croisée de destins et de personnages : il surprend et fascine, tant il ne ressemble à rien de connu tout en conservant une structure parfaitement attendue. Manière de symphonie, où Gide, qui tenait <em>Les Faux-Monnayeurs</em> pour l'un de ses textes les plus aboutis, orchestre les thèmes qui lui sont chers : l'adolescence et ses tourments, les troubles d'identité, mais surtout le mensonge, le faux sous toutes ses facettes, qu'il débusque avec acharnement, pour qu'enfin les masques tombent. <em>--Karla Manuele</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sensemania.blogspot.com/2009/06/les-faux-monnayeurs.html" title="http://sensemania.blogspot.com/2009/06/les-faux-monnayeurs.html">http://sensemania.blogspot.com/2009/06/l...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm going straight into the journals from here... <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/André_Gide01.jpg" class="escapedImg"/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps the best French novel. Indispensable!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I so wanted to like this book: thrill seeking schoolboys, tormented writers, decadent countesses, all traveling around exotic European locales...but somehow it all became tedious, with too much angsty longwinded passages that I found myself skimming through too often. Sorry Andre....]]></body>
    
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