Lafcadio's Adventures Author:Andr? Gide Andr? Gide, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Lafcadio's Adventures: The action of Lafcadio's Adventures passes not nonly in Rome and Paris but wanders through numerous capitals of Europe, and involves saints, adventurers, pickpockets, and--Lafcadio Wluiki. Andr? Gide's preoccupation with the idea of the unmotivated crime here achieves ... more »its most extended treatment, and Lafcadio--one of the most original creations in all modern fiction--is the instrument of the crime.« less