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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Wonderful, but also a bit of a hot mess. The Vatican Cellars starts off as a painfully dull 19th century novel of family disagreement, roughly as entertaining as Fontane, and then, for no apparent reason, turns into a glorious farce involving a fake pope kidnapping, an egregiously intrusive narrator, a motiveless murder (well before Camus), metanarrative silliness, a beautifully executed plot resolution, and a typically excellent Gidean moral conundrum: if we judge morality based on intention, can an act be wrong if it's unmotivated? This must slot into the fake pope kidnapping in some way, but I haven't puzzled that out yet, unless those who charge this book with nihilism are right, and the point is that the very idea of intention is useless, just as the pope-as-symbol is (this book suggests) empty, given that we can never be certain that the pope is actually the pope, and not someone stuck on the throne by conspiratorially minded free masons. All of which is great. The difficulty is getting through that god-awful opening, which Gide clearly knew was god-awful, but kept there just to make sure you realized that he was making fun of such very respectable people in the text that followed. It's intellectually satisfying, but aesthetically offensive, and certainly I'll be skipping it when I re-read this. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André Gide's Lafcadio's Adventures is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest articulations of his greatest theme: the unmotivated crime. When Lafcadio Wluiki, a street-smart nineteen-year-old in 1890s Paris, learns that he's heir to an ailing French nobleman's fortune, he's seized by wanderlust. Traveling through Rome in expensive new threads, he becomes entangled in a Church extortion scandal involving an imprisoned Pope, a skittish purveyor of graveyard statuary, an atheist-turned-believer on the edge of insolvency, and all manner of wastrels, swindlers, aristocrats, adventurers, and pickpockets. With characteristic irony, Gide contrives a hilarious detective farce whereby the wrong man is apprehended, while the charmingly perverse Lafcadio--one of the most original creations in all modern fiction--goes free. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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La figura de André Gide (1869-1951) es una de las más destacadas e influyentes de la literatura europea del siglo XX. Novela situada en la Roma barroca de finales del siglo XIX e impregnada de un espíritu satírico y corrosivo, "Los sótanos del Vaticano" gira en torno a una estafa organizada para obtener dinero de fervorosos católicos a quienes se hace creer que el papa León XIII ha sido secuestrado por las logias masónicas y sustituido en el solio pontificio por un doble. Entre los singulares personajes que desfilan por estas páginas en las que resuenan ecos de folletín, se cuentan un francmasón convertido en beato por una milagrosa curación y devuelto al ateísmo por una recaída en su enfermedad; el hijo natural de un aristócrata francés que afirma su derecho a violar la moralidad social; un novelista que, candidato a la Academia gracias a las ayudas de la jerarquía eclesiástica, se da cuenta de la inanidad de su obra; un casto triángulo formado por modestos burgueses de Pau, y por último ladrones y prostitutas de los bajos fondos que no se detienen ante el crimen.