Lafcadio's Adventures

Lafcadio's Adventures Wydawca: Vintage Opis produktu Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André Gide's Lafcadio'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 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. Features: Price on Product Specyfikacja SKU: KNPF001339452 EAN: 9780375713385 Waga: 295 g Author: Gide, Andre Binding: Paperback Pages: 288 Publication Year: 2003 BISAC Category 1: FIC004000 BISAC Category 2: FIC019000 BISAC Category 3: FIC052000