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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

Les caves du Vatican

André Gide

Paperback | Pages: 250 pages

Rating: 3.64 | 2289 Users | 143 Reviews

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

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At the exact midpoint between Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Camus' The Stranger, except tonally it's pitched as an ironic farce, or a black comedy, rather than an existential tract. I kept seeing glimpses of studio auteurs like Hitchcock, Lubitsch, Wilder, or Welles in the poker-faced treatment of existential absurdity, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were all familiar with Gide's novel. Although this Vintage edition was published in 2003, the translation is the same as the one that

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

I read it for... obvious reasons, but didn't enjoy it all that much.

One of the finest Novels ever written. One in a cycle of Old Great Novels about "Crime and Punishment", which includes Dostoevsky, Gide, Camus, and Celine, that Nazi.

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,

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

An odd book (maybe I missed something crucial?).The way I perceive it, there are essentially three different books here, rolled into a slim volume:1. A social satire, a Balzac parody of sorts.2. A caper about swindlers.3. A poor man's Crime and Punishment, with an open ending.But all three share the same characters!I liked Book 2 the best, it was uproariously funny; I laughed aloud a lot.