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The Vatican cellars
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- Book Synopsis
- Could the Pope have been secretly abducted? André Gide's famous satire centres around a group of ingenious fraudsters, who convince their wealthy victims that the pontiff has been imprisoned by freemasons. Ranging from madcap farce to scenes of romance and even murder, it is a send-up of conventional morality, most clearly in the picaresque character of Lafcadio, whose notorious behaviour in the novel provoked outrage at the time of publication. Though in a more light-hearted vein than other works by Gide, this unusual novel still questions how individuals should live their life when faced with the rigid social and ethical structures that surround us.
- About The Author
- 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. Julian Evans is a writer and translator. His most recent book is Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781908313690
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Gallic Books, (11 August 2014)
- Number of Pages
- 336
- Weight
- 325 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 178 x 127 x 24 mm
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