Lafcadio's Adventures
, by GIDE, ANDRENote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780375713385 | 0375713387
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 5/13/2003
Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate Andre 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 Lafcadioone of the most original creations in all modern fictiongoes free.