Lafcadio's Adventures: A Novel

Lafcadio's Adventures: A Novel

Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate AndrÃ© Gideâ€™s Lafcadioâ€™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 heâ€™s heir to an ailing French noblemanâ€™s fortune, heâ€™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 Lafcadioâ€”one of the most original creations in all modern fictionâ€”goes free.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780375713385
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2003-05-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375713385

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Vintage
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780375713385
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2003-05-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375713385

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