9780394700960

Lafcadio's Adventures

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780394700960

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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

ISBN-10

0394700961

Weight

0.40 Pounds

Dimensions

4.50 x 1.00 x 7.25 In

List Price

$17.00

Format

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage

Published On

1960-02-12



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