The Vatican Cellars
André Gide
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
Could the Pope have been secretly abducted?When nineteen-year-old Lafcadio Wluiki learns he is to inherit a French aristocrat's fortune, he heads to Rome, where a plot is afoot: ingenious fraudsters have set about convincing their wealthy victims that the pontiff has been imprisoned by freemasons at Castel Sant'Angelo.Saving toddlers from burning buildings one minute and committing a shocking, motiveless crime the next, the amoral Lafcadio is one of Nobel-winner André Gide's most original creations, and a model for later fictional anti-heroes such as Sartre's Meursault and Highsmith's Ripley. A send-up of conventional morality, The Vatican Cellars also carries an enduring warning about how easily we are duped by charming rogues.
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Vatican, existentialism, freemasons, anti-hero, Castel Sant'Angelo, French aristocrat, literary satire, Rome, Lafcadio Wluiki, deception, imprisonment, conventional morality, character study, moral critique, modern classic, charming rogues, motivations of crime, literary fiction., fraud, Nobel laureate, André Gide