by André Gide · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804387985
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«I sotterranei del Vaticano» is André Gide's satirical novel, published by Mondadori in paperback (292 pages, in Italian).
Satire and farce around a colossal deception: Pope Leo XIII is supposedly imprisoned in the Vatican cellars by a conspiracy of Masonic cardinals. Gide portrays an empty, mediocre humanity and contrasts it with the figure of Lafcadio, embodiment of the «gratuitous act», an action for pure pleasure as a form of liberation.
Translation by Cesare Giardini; number 96 in Mondadori's Oscar classici moderni collection. The work was originally published in French in 1914 under the title «Les Caves du Vatican».
Recommended for readers of classic French fiction and for those who appreciate satire of twentieth-century political-religious and literary circles.
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. Author of more than 50 books, he was described in his New York Times obituary as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."
