Les Faux-Monnayeurs
Apr 25, 2014 2:26:00 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 2:26:00 GMT -5
I wonder whether many members during their school-time read as I did Gide's Faux-Monnayeurs? It is said to be the first cubist novel, written in accordance with principles invented or discovered - which would you say? - by Braque and a couple of others. This week I was delighted to discover an adaptation for the tele-vision:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Counterfeiters_%28novel%29#2010_film_adaptation
What was remarkable was that after all these years I remembered in the first half every smallest detail, as depicted in the cubist movie - there are about thirty separate scenes, with a title prefixed to each. Yet of the second half I remembered hardly anything - nothing at all about Jarry, and only a faint glimmer of the Boris business. Perhaps I simply skimmed over the second half while reading the book.
Here we see Bernard who after discovering that his presumed father is in fact not has just left home and is being put up for the first night by Olivier:
There is also of course Georges the younger brother and Vincent the older (who oddly enough simply disappears in the second half), as well as Edouard the Gide-figure, planning his own novel, entitled . . . Les Faux-Monnayeurs. A scheme of the important personages:
Recommended.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Counterfeiters_%28novel%29#2010_film_adaptation
What was remarkable was that after all these years I remembered in the first half every smallest detail, as depicted in the cubist movie - there are about thirty separate scenes, with a title prefixed to each. Yet of the second half I remembered hardly anything - nothing at all about Jarry, and only a faint glimmer of the Boris business. Perhaps I simply skimmed over the second half while reading the book.
Here we see Bernard who after discovering that his presumed father is in fact not has just left home and is being put up for the first night by Olivier:
There is also of course Georges the younger brother and Vincent the older (who oddly enough simply disappears in the second half), as well as Edouard the Gide-figure, planning his own novel, entitled . . . Les Faux-Monnayeurs. A scheme of the important personages:
Recommended.