The most famous French writer, Nobel Prize laureate in 1947, classic of world literature Andre Gide (1869-1951) liked to call himself a “man of dialogue,” “a man of contradictions.” He never offered readers specific moral decisions; on the contrary, he always looked for answers to countless questions about the meaning of life, about man and fate. The multifaceted talent of Andre Gide is reflected in his vivid, sometimes grotesque works, the genre of which is not always definable.

The novel “The Counterfeiters” was published in the fourth volume of the Collected Works.