“The courts have always had an irresistible fascination on me. When traveling, four things especially attract me to a city: the public garden, the market, the cemetery and the courthouse. ”
This word from André Gide, who opens
Ne judge
, could have appeared as an epigraph of his novel
Les Faux-monnayeurs
, published in 1926. The author of
Nourritures terrestres
and
La Porte Narrow
was then 57 years old and enjoyed a intellectual aura and unparalleled literary prestige. The following year, when he had just discovered Equatorial Africa, he confided in
La Nouvelle Revue française
, which he had co-founded in 1909:
"The news item that interests me is one that upsets certain notions that are too easily accepted, and that forces us to reflect."
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