Counterfeiters

“My novel hasn’t got a subject. Yes, I know it sounds stupid…let’s say, if you prefer it, it hasn’t got one subject…and the subject of the book, if you must have one, is just that the very struggle between what reality offers him and what he himself desires to make of it.”

In a novel about a novelist writing a novel that mirrors the novel he is in, what is the reality of the story? The Counterfeit...