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Les caves du Vatican

André Gide

Paperback | Pages: 250 pages

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

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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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Title	:	Les caves du Vatican
Author	:	André Gide
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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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.

Unlike my good habits, I have read this book without researching the author or his work beforehand. Therefore, I ended up pacing through the book and considering it a light reading, some kind of sordid literary joke. Moreover - in spite of the fact that I love open endings - this 'grand finale' disappointed me by what I thought to be a lack of capacity to tie the knots of the plot.But my OCD reading skills determined me to find out some more about André Gide's work and especially about "Les

Wow, I really dug this Gide tale. Zany and witty, I think it would make a great screwball comedy movie, I hope someone makes it! Then there is this Avant-garde/Surrealist fascination with unmotivated murder, from the André Breton quip, André Breton: Arbiter of Surrealism ("The simplest Surrealist act, wrote André Breton, founder of Surrealism, consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.) to the Surrealist

I find it difficult to fully explain how disappointed I am with this book. Not only did it take me quite long to read, but it never even came close to interesting me. The various plots? Bah. Couldn't care less. The writing? Atrocious. I can't stand characters who talk to themselves Days of our Lives-style. The characters? Brutally boring (and what's with the names?). Lafcadio has a shimmer of intrigue to him, but not enough to make up for the extreme platitude of the rest of the cast. The female

UnexpectedThe first 1/3 of the book goes on and blabs about nothing and nothing without giving signs of wiling to be interesting; then, by the time you get to it's half, you are bombarded with everything you could want from a book-> plot twists, kidnappings, murders, more plot twists, and all the characters coming together (more or less) in the end; almost as if by the end, the author is trying to make up for the boredom caused at the beginning.In regards to the themes, there is, again, a bit

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.

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,