The Vatican Cellars

By:

Andre Gide

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Editions Gallic

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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.

Author Biography:

Andre 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.

Release date Australia

August 11th, 2014

Author

Andre Gide

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Translated by Julian Evans

Pages

336

Series

Editions Gallic

ISBN-13

9781908313690

Product ID

22514962

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