Chapter 67 "Counterfeiter" and "Diary of a Counterfeiter"

"Counterfeiter" and "Diary of a Counterfeiter" I have read and reread Gide's "Counterfeiters" published in 1926.this is a small Said that Gide considers it one of his important works.Although strictly speaking, this work is a bit unlike novel, because in addition to the third-person narration, the diary of the characters is inserted in the book, Shuhan, and first-person confessions of fragments.But I loved its fresh description and structure back then And form, so read and read. Perhaps because of too much effort, Gide's novel with a lot of conceit was not well received after its publication.

As good as he expected, the younger generation of French writers at that time even had an aversion to this book. Gide's book describes the kind of counterfeiters with international organization background who specially instigate French youths and teenagers Counterfeit currency has been peddled and circulated for years.He seems to use this to satirize the thinking of young French writers at that time. Both ideas and works are unreliable, and they are all selling "counterfeit money" like the characters in the book.which makes the horse Arlo and others were annoyed, thinking it was a malicious slander, they publicly accused Gide, saying

Although the younger generation intends to "create new value", what they create is clean It is not an imitation or counterfeit of "old currency". Gide was taken aback, and to show the energy he expended in writing this "Counterfeiter," I specially sorted out the notes I made and the materials I collected during my writing, and published it under the title "Fake Diary of a Currency Criminal. Some people laughed at him, "Counterfeiters" had failed, and the publication of "Diary of Counterfeiters" just happened. Well, it became the confession of how Gide's work failed.Although I have already read Gide's "Pseudo

Currency Criminal", but never had the opportunity to read his "Diary of a Counterfeiter".later saw london Gassel Bookstore announced that an English translation of Oberon's would be published, so I went to order one. What I sent was a limited edition, a thin booklet of 60 or 70 pages, although the binding, typography and paper quality were very careful. research, and noted that this is the 317th volume out of the limited printing of 500 copies, but the price is very high—— Ten shillings. After flipping through it, a small book of sixty or seventy pages cannot withstand several flips.Gide's writing project

I am not interested, what I pay attention to is the information he collected for writing that novel, as follows This record interests me the most: "If for some of them this criminal business was A way of obtaining higher enjoyment of life beyond the pocket money given at home, but for others Some - at least they say so - it is a humanitarian work: 'No I will give a little to those who are in financial difficulty so that they can use it to subsidize their Family life . . . no one was harmed by this move, for it was the Treasury, not individuals'. " I just like Gide's attitude towards life, which, as he said,

The loveliness is as if the same handle is suitable for the gates of heaven and the gates of hell door key.