The Vatican Cellars (eBook)

André Gide (Autor)

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2025
336 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-80533-418-7 (ISBN)

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Could the Pope have been secretly abducted?When nineteen-year-old Lafcadio Wluiki learns he is to inherit a French aristocrat's fortune, he heads to Rome, where a plot is afoot: ingenious fraudsters have set about convincing their wealthy victims that the pontiff has been imprisoned by freemasons at Castel Sant'Angelo.Saving toddlers from burning buildings one minute and committing a shocking, motiveless crime the next, the amoral Lafcadio is one of Nobel-winner André Gide's most original creations, and a model for later fictional anti-heroes such as Sartre's Meursault and Highsmith's Ripley. A send-up of conventional morality, The Vatican Cellars also carries an enduring warning about how easily we are duped by charming rogues.

Autor

André Gide was a giant of twentieth-century French literature. An innovator of the novelistic form, he undertook a life-long exploration of morality in his work, and was a major influence on the writing of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Gide was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2025
• Übersetzer: Julian Evans
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: André Gide • anti-hero • Castel Sant'Angelo • Character Study • charming rogues • conventional morality • Deception • Existentialism • Fraud • freemasons • french aristocrat • Imprisonment • Lafcadio Wluiki • literary fiction. • literary satire • Modern Classic • Moral Critique • motivations of crime • Nobel Laureate • Rome • Vatican
• ISBN-10: 1-80533-418-2 / 1805334182
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80533-418-7 / 9781805334187