Name: Lafcadio's Adventures

Full name: Lafcadio's Adventures: A Novel

Author: Andre Gide
Year: 1914
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Fiction
Culture: France

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9781162724300
9780375713385
1162724307
0375713387
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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