Lafcadio's Adventures
In this novel of farcical intrigue, Gide's preoccupation with the unmotivated crime received it most thorough treatment.
In this novel of farcical intrigue, Gide's preoccupation with the unmotivated crime received it most thorough treatment.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375713385 (0375713387)
Publish date: May 13th 2003
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Mystery,
Crime,
Modern,
Roman,
France,
French Literature,
Nobel Prize
Why do we behave the way that we do? Psychologists would argue about nature versus nurture, but they rarely go so far as to talk about the ongoing pressures that family and society and law and religion and culture have on us as adults. André Gide’s The Vatican Cellars, originally published in 1914, ...
Abridged version of my review posted on Edith’s Miscellany on 11 October 2013The story of Lafcadio’s Adventures revolves around a set of five exaggerated types rather than characters: the confirmed atheist, model scientist and freemason Anthime Armand-Dubois; the practicing, though pragmatic Catholi...
The gratuitous act.... A great, great novel -- with a very modern, philosophical twist. Something made me think of it today....
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