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Lafcadio's Adventures (Vintage International) Book
Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André Gideâ??s Lafcadioâ??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 heâ??s heir to an ailing French noblemanâ??s fortune, heâ??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 Lafcadioâ??one of the most original creations in all modern fictionâ??goes free.Read More
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- 0375713387
- 9780375713385
- Andre Gide
- 1 May 2003
- Vintage Books
- Paperback (Book)
- 288
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