Novels
Gogol, Dead Souls, 1842.
Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man, 1857.
Georges Manolescu, Der Mann mit dem blauen Gehroch: Memoiren eines Hochstaplers, 1905.
Jean Cocteau, Thomas L’imposteur, 1923.
Jean Giono, Les grands chemins , 1951.
Thomas Mann, Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull, 1955.
Jerzy Kosinski, Being there, 1970.
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1993.
Nathalie Sarraute, “Le mensonge”, in : Œuvres complètes, 1996.
David Foster Wallace, “Good Old Neon”, in: Oblivion: Stories, 2001.
Grégoire Polet, Excusez les fautes du copiste, 2006.
Luigi Guarneri, La double vie de Vermeer, 2006.
Sarah Kaminsky, Adolfo Kaminsky, une vie de faussaire, 2009.
Georges Perec, Le Condottière, 2012.
Yasushi Inoue, Life of a Counterfeiter, 2015.
Damon Galgut, The Impostor, 2015.
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Liar, 2017.
Britta Böhler, De Juiste Houding, 2021.
Films
“The Third Man”, Carol Reed, 1949.
“Il Generale della Rovere”, Roberto Rossellini, 1959.
“F for Fake”, Orson Welles, 1973.
“Seventeen Moments of Spring“, Tatyana Lioznova, 1973.
“Kagemusha“, Akira Kurosawa, 1980.
“Dead Ringers“, David Cronenberg, 1988.
“The Talented Mr. Ripley”, Anthony Minghella, 1999.
“L’Adversaire”, Nicole Garcia, 2002.
“Catch Me If You Can”, Steven Spielberg, 2002.
“The Hoax”, Lasse Hällstrom, 2006.
“The Counterfeiters“, Stefan Ruzowitzky, 2007.
“The Imposter”, Bart Layton, 2012.
“The Armstrong Lie“, Alex Gibney, 2013.
“The Captain“, Robert Schwentke, 2017.
“The Burnt Orange Heresy“, Giuseppe Capotondi, 2019.
“The Good Liar”, Bill Condon, 2019.
“A Hero”, Asghar Farhadi, 2021.