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Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on front cover. Softcover..

 

Publishing Info: Vintage V-96, New York

ISBN: n/a

 

Andre Gide, French writer, humanist, and moralist received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947 for his books. Gide's search for self, the underlying theme of his several books, remained essentially religious. Throughout his career Gide used his books to examine moral questions.

 

Lafcadio Wluiki is one of the original creations in modern fiction. Gide's preoccupation with the gratuitous action, the unmotivated crime-it has a place in more than one of his books-here receives its most extended treatment, and Lafcadio is the instrument.

 

With characteristic irony, Gide leads the police to a solution wherein the wrong man is apprehended and punished for the crime, while the charmingly perverse Lafcadio goes free. The action passes with cinematographic speed, chiefly in the capitals of Europe. The actors, other than Lafcadio, are noblemen, saints, adventurers and pickpockets.

 

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