Lafcadio's Adventures
7 hrs. 13 min.
Description
The well-known French writer, Nobel Prize laureate of 1947, a classic of world literature André Gide (1869–1951), liked to call himself a “man of dialogue,” a “man of contradictions.” He never offered readers specific moral solutions; instead, he always searched for answers to countless questions about the meaning of life, about the human being, and about fate. “The Undergrounds of the Vatican” is Gide’s most unusual novel. A witty, full of mischievous humor story about a band of intellectual swindlers who devised a truly brilliant way to “take money from the public”—raising funds for a crusade to “free” a miserable Pope who is supposedly kidnapped by Freemasons and kept in the Undergrounds of the Vatican. Forever charming text, with the traits of an ironic detective story and a social satire, yet filled with the subtlest allusions to medieval carnival culture and Renaissance trickster fiction…
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