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Original Title:	Les caves du Vatican
ISBN:	2070360342 (ISBN13: 9782070360345)
Edition Language:	English

Les caves du Vatican

André Gide

Paperback | Pages: 250 pages

Rating: 3.64 | 2289 Users | 143 Reviews

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Title	:	Les caves du Vatican
Author	:	André Gide
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 250 pages
Published	:	February 1st 1972 by Gallimard Education (first published 1914)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature. Literature

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Qu'une vieille mule comme Amédée Fleurissoire rencontre des escrocs, et le voilà en route pour Rome, persuadé d'aller sauver le pape. À ce jeu de dupes, il n'a pas grand chose à perdre sinon quelques illusions et beaucoup d'argent.

Qu'un jeune arriviste comme Lafcadio décide de se faire passer pour le fils naturel d'un grand auteur et le voilà maître à chanter. À ce jeu de dupes, il a tout à gagner.

Mais que ces deux destins se croisent à bord d'un vieux train et tout bascule : que se passerait-il si Lafcadio poussait cet inconnu hors du train, comme ça, gratuitement, un crime pour rien ? Ça n'aurait aucun sens, mais c'est justement pour ça que ce serait grisant : la liberté dans l'acte gratuit...

Les mécanismes de la pensée, les rouages de la décision, la teneur de notre liberté : autant d'aspects de la nature humaine qui fascinent Gide, et qu'il traque dans toute son oeuvre, flirtant avec les frontières de l'absurde, non sans humour, mais toujours avec style et raffinement. --Karla Manuele

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A new addition to the list of my all time favorite novels. Funny how that often seems to be the case with things I picked up decades ago and left languishing on my shelves, unread! A brief mention of Lafcadio in Sanouillets "Dada In Paris" finally piqued my interest.This is a nasty, witty farcical novel which squarely takes aim at the credulous and convention-bound, particularly those of a pious bent. I won't share any spoilers as to the plot, so as not to deny the same pleasure I felt reading

The book is supposed to be about moral nihilism. The pivotal scene is that in which an unattached young man , Lafcadio, kicks Fleurissoire out of the train by night, simply for play. Not sure what the take away message is, would have to dig deeper into Gide's. But I'll remember it mainly as entertaining. The running joke on Fleurissoire, the brave guy on a mission to save the Pope (something like that) made me lol. The style is between a novel and a play.

Andre Gide the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947 is talked about less now than when I was attending secondary school in the 1970s. Because of his great reputation, I laboured through a half-dozen or so of his works before I tired of him. I found several of his works (La Porte Etroite, La Symphonie Pastorale and l'Immortaliste) to be remarkable primarily for the lack of joy they created in the reader's spirit.I suggest then that someone wishing to know more about Gide start with

This was fun. Gide is an under-rated master of pacing and character development. The jacket copy oversells the book as some kind of proto-Camus exploration of "unmotivated crime," but really it's a retro-18th-century-style farce, full of mistaken identity, improbable coincidences, estates satire, and some gleeful mockery of religion thrown in for good measure.



André Gide is not always a fun writer. His Strait Is the Gate is a work of devout even pseudo religiosity. It didn't take long for Gide to have a Freemasons' cabal hold Pope Leo XIII captive in the caves under the Vatican and replace him with a lookalike, just so that his hero can collect money from the devout rich to release him. Lafcadio's Adventures is lighthearted throughout, even though one of Lafcadio Wliuki's "marks" gets pushed off a train to his death near Capua. The plot ranges from

My first Gide; atheism, anti-clericalism, Catholicism, crime, moves fast, the philosophy is in the action I guess.Caves du Vatican is the correct title, cellars is a poor translation but the book has a good translation.