Lafcadio's Adventures-Fiction: general and literary-買書書 BuyBookBook
Lafcadio's Adventures-Fiction: general and literary-買書書 BuyBookBook

Lafcadio's Adventures

A Novel

Andre Gide (Author) ... more
Edition: US - Paperback / softback
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English • Age Adult - Adult
288 pages • 5.27 x 7.99 x 0.64 in
Approx. weight: 0.58 lb
Publication date: 13 May,2003
Barcode: 9780375713385 • Vintage
More books in English for Age Adult - Adult
Fiction: general and literary
  • Fiction: general and literary
  • Satirical fiction and parodies
  • Crime and mystery fiction

Description

By: 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.

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