Lafcadio's Adventures - 9780375713385
Un libro in lingua di Andre Gide Dorothy Bussy edito da Vintage Books, 2003
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Lafcadio's Adventures
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Andre Gide Dorothy Bussy
- Editore: Vintage Books
- Collana: Vintage Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Maggio '03
- Genere: FICTION
- Dimensioni mm: 209 x 127 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0375713387
- EAN-13: 9780375713385