Lafcadio’s Adventures (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: André Gide
- First Published: 1914
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1890’s, during the pontificate of Leo XIII
- Setting: France and Italy
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Satire
- Subjects: France or French people, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Brothers, Blackmail, Adventure, Italy or Italians
- Locales: France, Italy
Characters Discussed
Lafcadio Wluiki (laf-KAH-dee- oh lew-KEE), a charming nineteen-year-old, born a bastard, whose natural father turns out to be the dying Count Juste-Agénor de Baraglioul. Lafcadio is a free spirit, deliberately eschewing any kind of bond or constraint. His spirit of adventure and his obsession with the possibilities of his own nature lead him to test himself in a gamelike fashion, by pushing out of a speeding train, without any specific reason, Amédée Fleurissoire, whom he had never met before. This paradigmatic expression of the “gratuitous act”...
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André Gide (Cyclopedia of World Authors)André Gide (Dictionary of World Biography)André Gide (Long Fiction)André Gide (Censorship)
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