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Lafcadio s Adventures A Novel

by [Gide, Andre]

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Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André 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.

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  • Vintage Brand
  • May 13, 2003 Pub Date:
  • 9780375713385 ISBN-13:
  • 0375713387 ISBN-10:
  • 288.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 8 in * 0.65 in * 5.19 in Dimensions:
  • 0 lb Weight: