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Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André Gide’sLafcadio’s Adventuresis 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.
| ISBN-13 | 9780394700960 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0394700961 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 4.50 x 1.00 x 7.25 In |
| List Price | $17.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Publisher | Vintage |
| Published On | 1960-02-12 |
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