Bernard Profitendieu, cramming for his baccalauréat, discovers a bundle of letters proving he is not his father’s son and walks out of the family home. His friend Olivier, Olivier’s uncle Edouard — a novelist keeping a journal about the book he cannot finish — and the worldly Comte de Passavant draw him into a web of false coins, false loves and false fathers.
Gide’s most ambitious novel, a book about the writing of a novel that shaped modernist fiction, in Dorothy Bussy’s translation. Download the free EPUB.