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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, adventurers, and pickpockets. With characteristic irony, Gide contrives a hilarious detective farce whereby the wrong man is apprehended, while the charmingly perverse Lafcadio goes free.

Book details

• Full title: Lafcadio's Adventures
• Author: Andre Gide
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780375713385
• ISBN: 0375713387
• ID: 11406666
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 295 g
• Dimensions: 132 × 201 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: May 2003

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