The Vatican Cellars by Andre Gide
Could the Pope have been secretly abducted? Andr Gide's famous satire centres around a group of ingenious fraudsters, who convince their wealthy victims that the pontiff has been imprisoned by freemasons. Ranging from madcap farce to scenes of romance and even murder, it is a send-up of conventional morality, most clearly in the picaresque character of Lafcadio, whose notorious behaviour in the novel provoked outrage at the time of publication. Though in a more light-hearted vein than other works by Gide, this unusual novel still questions how individuals should live their life when faced with the rigid social and ethical structures that surround us.
'An expertly constructed network of coincidence and error, shot through with a level of dramatic irony not present in the work for which Gide is most renowned' The Irish Times 'Gide's subtle, snarky humor had me very entertained, even though many of the characters do completely depraved thingsI understand why Gide was such a controversial author in his time' A Bookish Type 'Quite brilliantly blackly comic' Winston's Dad's blog 'The Vatican Cellars is an entertaining, easy read and can be intellectually stimulating if you are interested to analyse it further' Word by Word
Andre Gide was a giant of twentieth-century French literature. An innovator of the novelistic form, he undertook a life-long exploration of morality in his work, and was a major influence on the writing of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Gide was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781908313690 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908313692 |
| Title | The Vatican Cellars |
| Author | Andre Gide |
| Series | Editions Gallic |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gallic Books |
| Year published | 2014-08-11 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of ENGLISH PEN AWARD 2013, Winner of NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 1947 |
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