Lafcadio's Adventures

by Gide, Andre
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ISBN: 9780375713385
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Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate Andr Gide's Lafcadio's Adventures is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest articulations of his greatest theme: the unmotivated crime.

When Lafcadio Wluiki, a street-smart nineteen-year-old in 1890s Paris, learns that he's heir to an ailing French nobleman's fortune, he's seized by wanderlust. Traveling through Rome in expensive new threads, he becomes entangled in a Church extortion scandal involving an imprisoned Pope, a skittish purveyor of graveyard statuary, an atheist-turned-believer on the edge of insolvency, and all manner of wastrels, swindlers, aristocrats, adventurers, and pickpockets. With characteristic irony, Gide contrives a hilarious detective farce whereby the wrong man is apprehended, while the charmingly perverse Lafcadio--one of the most original creations in all modern fiction--goes free.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Gide, Andre
  • ISBN: 9780375713385
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 5.20 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 288
  • Publication Year: 2003

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