Vatican Cellars

Andre Gide was a giant of twentieth-century French literature. An innovator of the novelistic form, he undertook a life-long exploration of morality in his work, and was a major influence on the writing of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Gide was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.

'An expertly constructed network of coincidence and error, shot through with a level of dramatic irony not present in the work for which Gide is most renowned' The Irish Times'Gide's subtle, snarky humor had me very entertained, even though many of the characters do completely depraved things. I understand why Gide was such a controversial author in his time' A Bookish Type'Quite brilliantly blackly comic' Winston's Dad's blog'The Vatican Cellars is an entertaining, easy read and can be intellectually stimulating if you are interested to analyse it further' Word by Word