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"The Food of the World" is a collection of two prose works by Gide, "The Food of the World" (1897) and "The New Food" (1935). "The Food of the World" is known as "the Bible of the restless generation". The author uses his wanderings in Africa as a clue and a virtual goddess as his object of confiding, describing exotic customs and expressing his feelings about life. It is Gide's manifesto to vent his youthful passion and pursue happiness. It is filled with a kind of primitive and instinctive impulse, recording the original state of impulse when the instinct pursues happiness; and this original state of impulse gives people a primitive texture, with rough, natural, innocent and lively characteristics, and is recognized by the younger generation. "New Food" once again promotes the power of "emotion" and praises the passion for life as sacred as religion.

Works by Nobel Prize winner Gide, a work of fiction in the true sense recognized by Gide. The translator Sheng Chenghua is the first person in China to study Gide, and he once had contacts with Gide. Penal accidentally discovered his identity as an illegitimate child and ran away from home. By chance, he became the secretary of the writer Edward, who was also the uncle of his best friend Olivier... The novel truly records the confusion, doubts and resistance of young people, and how they continue to explore and get lost in a society with sinking morals and lost values. "Counterfeit money" has rich meanings; tracking down counterfeit money means exposing all kinds of lies, disguises and false appearances woven through words and actions. The world constructed in the novel "The Counterfeiter" is composed of three parts: family, religion, and literature. "Counterfeit money" is their common feature. Together, they form a very absurd world.

Alyssa and Jerome are cousins ​​since childhood. Alyssa often read poetry and literature with Jerome on the bench behind the garden, and the two spent a long but carefree childhood in the countryside of Normandy. Love gradually took root among several boys and girls of the same age. At first, they secretly fell in love with each other, each hiding their secrets and worries, just like all teenagers who are just starting to fall in love. When they are deeply in love, their spirits blend together and they want to become a better person for each other, completely unable to tolerate any imperfection. However, cousin Alyssa saw love eventually fall into an ordinary appearance in other people's ordinary marriages, and she had doubts about love. What she wanted to pursue was eternal love, and she firmly believed that there was immortal love in the world, but the road to eternity was a narrow road, and the door to enter was a "narrow door" that "only a few people" could find. Immortality and eternal love require a lifetime of dedication and great efforts to achieve.