EBOOK Lafcadio's Adventures
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A Novel
Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate Andr Gides Lafcadios 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 hes heir to an ailing French noblemans fortune, hes 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.
Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate Andr Gides Lafcadios 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 hes heir to an ailing French noblemans fortune, hes 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.