The Counterfeiters: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Counterfeiters by André Gide: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 14 original MP3 tracks, 12:09:18 running time and a link to listen.
The Counterfeiters, credited to André Gide, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Counterfeiters by André Gide. (Translated by Dorothy Bussy.) Read in English by Thomas A. Copeland. In Les Faux-monnayeurs André Gide examines the lives of several individuals and families in the Paris of 1925, following their interrelationships and travels to reveal a cross-section of French society at a particular moment in history. Although the characters affect one another by their choices and some significant story lines do reach closure, there is no actual plot. The counterfeiting of the title enters the plot eventually, and it has a double function: to provide a climactic point at which to end the novel (by no means a “conclusion”) and also to declare the author’s integrity. A character speaking of literature in general says, “In a world in which everyone cheats, it’s the honest man who passes for a charlatan.” Here the author implies that his novel depicts his world as it truly is and will therefore be criticized for misrepresenting it, the true coin being perceived as counterfeit. Very likely he recognized that including atheist characters and a homosexual romance as merely variations of normality would scandalize his critics. (Summary by T. A. Copeland)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Counterfeiters
- Author credits: André Gide
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 14
- Listed recording duration: 12:09:18
Catalogue topics
- paris
- gay
- coming-of-age
- infidelity
- bourgeois
- lgbt
- homosexual
- aristocrat
Track guide
- 01 - Section 1 — 59:28
- 02 - Section 2 — 55:17
- 03 - Section 3 — 53:44
- 04 - Section 4 — 42:47
- 05 - Section 5 — 58:31
- 06 - Section 6 — 33:31
- 07 - Section 7 — 52:18
- 08 - Section 8 — 54:32
- 09 - Section 9 — 53:07
- 10 - Section 10 — 54:00
- 11 - Section 11 — 55:22
- 12 - Section 12 — 1:01:52
- 13 - Section 13 — 41:54
- 14 - Section 14 — 52:55
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