"The Vatican Swindle" by André Gide is a story that takes place when Leo XIII was pope. It focuses on Anthime Armand-Dubois, a curious scientist who doesn’t believe in religion, and it shows how he deals with his family and society. Anthime travels to Rome for medicine with his religious wife, Veronica, and Julius. They argue about faith, because Veronica wants him to become religious, but he stays an atheist. Their relationship has problems. Then, a clever kid named Beppo enters their lives so Anthime can experiment on living things. Another family, the Baragliouls, arrives, making the story more complex and mixing funny and sad moments as everyone tries to find meaning in a world of knowledge and faith.
The Vatican swindle : $b (Les caves du Vatican)
By André Gide
In a world of faith and doubt, a defiant scientist, a religious wife, and families intertwined create a whirlwind of scandal, familial conflict, and the search for purpose.
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About the AuthorAndré Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writings 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. The author of more than fifty books, he was described in his obituary in The New York Times as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writings 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. The author of more than fifty books, he was described in his obituary in The New York Times as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."
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