Full name: Lafcadio's Adventures: A Novel

Author: Andre Gide Year: 1914 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com ISBNs: 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. Similar books: The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq The Notebook by Agota Kristof Nohow On by Samuel Beckett So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal Joy of Man's Desiring by Jean Giono The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau The Song of the World by Jean Giono Once Upon the River Love by Andrei Makine The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre The Great Fire of London by Jacques Roubaud Honeymoon by Patrick Modiano Harvest by Jean Giono Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera W by Georges Perec The File on H by Ismail Kadare Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Conde The Rover by Joseph Conrad The Last Life by Claire Messud