As other commentators have said, it's uneven, and a little unclear as to where it's going or attempting to achieve.The Counterfeiters, also by Gide, is a superb novel - but this came across as rather a novelty piece. Then there is this Avant-garde/Surrealist fascination with unmotivated murder, from the André Breton quip, I read it for... obvious reasons, but didn't enjoy it all that much.One of the finest Novels ever written. Because of his great reputation, I laboured through a half-dozen or so of his works before I tired of him. The main characters of this fiction, cultural story are , . While Lafcadio enables the crux of Gide's philosophical musings, there's much more to this story than that. "Is it possible to choose freely to do evil?" His structural form is quintessentially modernist.

Funny how that often seems to be the case with things I picked up decades ago and left languishing on my shelves, unread! A scientist French living and working in Rome who was atheistic has an epiphany and becomes a Catholic. Lafcadio has a shimmer of intrigue to him, but not enough to make up for the extreme platitude of the rest of the cast. Couldn't care less. A change of scene--a moment's forgetfulness suffice.” We’d love your help. The answer is no, but much fun is had at the expense of the Church and bourgeoisie along the way.A rolicking, entertaining satire republished and retranslated in 2014, 100 years after its first publication. I sotterranei del Vaticano (titolo originale Les Caves du Vatican, edito in Italia anche col titolo Le segrete del vaticano) è un romanzo di André Gide, pubblicato. A great book for an armchair traveler, or a backpacking/train adventure in Europe. Gide is an under-rated master of pacing and character development. Chronique philosophique du Mercure de France (Déc. Psychologists would argue about nature versus nurture, but they rarely go so far as to talk about the ongoing pressures that family and society and law and religion and culture have on us as adults. The original title, "The Vatican Swindle," seems more appropriate. We get introduced to a young man Baragloul Wlouki who has rich blood and occasionally behaves like a true gentleman saving some children from a fire in Paris . À ce jeu de dupes, il n'a pas grand chose à perdre sinon quelques illusions et beaucoup d'argent.

A great book for an armchair traveler, or a backpacking/train adveA delightful, sprightly farce infused with a buoyant energy that captures the essence of old-world Europe. Les Caves du Vatican est une œuvre réputée pour son intrigue particulièrement embrouillée [1]. The writing?

Les caves du Vatican doit surtout sa célébrité à une scène précise avec le personnage de Lafcadio. One in a cycle of Old Great Novels about "Crime and Punishment", which includes Dostoevsky, Gide, Camus, and Celine, that Nazi.Gide has a brilliant ability to weave subplots together into a unified narrative, while offering perspectives and shades of meaning from characters who seem peripheral, but whose final integration into the novel becomes essential.

The original title, "The Vatican Swindle," seems more appropriate. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.“He let Julius go. Cet athéisme, je l'ai exprimé depuis une quinzaine d'années, dans une série d'ouvragesL'œuvre est devenue pièce de théâtre, adaptée par son auteur en deux actes et dix-sept tableaux et créée à la 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 ? Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. LES CAVES DU VATICAN LIVRE PREMIER Anthime Armand−Dubois Pour ma part, mon choix est fait. J'ai opté pour l'athéisme social. A scientist French living and working in Rome who was atheistic has an epiphany and becomes a Catholic. We get introduced to a young man Baragloul Wlouki who has rich blood and occasionally behaves like a true gentleman saving some children from a fire in Paris .

Therefore, I ended up pacing through the book and considering it a light reading, some kind of sordid literary joke. Funny how that often seems to be the case with things I picked up decades ago and left languishing on my shelves, unread! The female characters? by Gallimard Education

Brutally boring (and what's with the names?). Couldn't care less. I'd not even reached the cellars, and I'd not got to THAT scene, but I really don’t think I missed much – it's all waffle, pretentiousness for the sake of pointing out religious pretentiousness, and gets nowhere fast. Wait, were there any? It's NOT funny. Zany and witty, I think it would make a great screwball comedy movie, I hope someone makes it!