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About This Novel

"The Counterfeiter" is Gide's last novel. It is also a detective novel, a coming-of-age novel, an ethics novel, an adventure novel, and a psychological novel. Through the integration of multiple threads and clues, the social panorama of the time is presented. It describes several children who went astray and committed the crime of using counterfeit money, as well as a group of people who are good at self-deception and are accustomed to finding reasons to deceive themselves and unconsciously settling for self-deception. It begins with Penel Profet's younger brother discovering that he is an illegitimate child and runs away from home. It goes through a series of events, from youth to maturity, and ends with returning to his father's side. It records the confusion, questions and resistance of young people at that time. They were constantly groping in a society with declining morals and lost values, but they were constantly lost.

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