Les caves du Vatican by Andre Gide

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Les caves du Vatican by Andre Gide

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.

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ISBN 13 9782070360345
ISBN 10 2070360342
Title Les caves du Vatican
Author Andre Gide
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Gallimard
Year published 1980-01-01
Number of pages 250
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.