Lafcadio's Adventures
A Novel
Unavailable for nearly a decade, Lafcadio's Adventures is Nobel laureate Andre Gide's brilliantly sly satire of the Catholic Church 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 an heir to an ailing French nobleman's fortune, he's seized by wanderlust. Traveling through Rome in slick new duds, he becomes entangled in a Church extortion scandal involving an imprisoned Pope, an atheist-turned-believer on the edge of insolvency, a skittish purveyor of graveyard statuary, and all manner of wastrels, swindlers, aristocrats,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-375-71338-5
- EAN: 9780375713385
- Produktnummer: 9437512
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Über den Autor
André Gide was born in Paris in 1869 and died there in 1951. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. His works include The Immoralist, The Counterfeiters, Strait is the Gate, the autobiography If It Die . . . , and three volumes of Journals. He also wrote plays, essays, short stories, and books of travel.
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