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Lafcadio's Adventures: a Novel Reprint edition
Andre Gide
Lafcadio's Adventures: a Novel Reprint edition
Andre Gide
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.
Médias | Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé) |
Validé | 13 mai 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780375713385 |
Éditeurs | Vintage |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 201 × 132 × 18 mm · 294 g |
Langue et grammaire | English |
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