His Idea Of "silly Drama"

Gide had experienced a long process of practice on novel,“farce” was one of theimportant creation genre. Appling “farce” which arose from medieval drama genre tothe novels, combining the satirical language with distinctive perspective andmythological images, Gide give prominence to salient “farce” spirit on the base ofmodern novels. All of these formed of Gide unique novel creative idea. In thetransformation process of traditional novel idea and form, Gide proposed the statesubject of the modern people at first, breakthrough the problems like the traditionalnovel genre or the limitation of vision. Eventually, he used all these practice experienceof “farce” creation into his only novel “the counterfeiters”. Gide and his creative ideasinherited the traditional novel in a unique way, and changed the western novels on thebasis of it. The influence of what brought to western modernism is indelible vanguard.