Matthew’s Reviews > Lafcadio's Adventures > Status Update

Protos just said "The turkey that turneth on the spit beginneth to glow like the setting sun!... What do I see? A cut? Thou bleedest, my lad! Run, Dorino, to the barn and fetch a cobweb, a sovereign remedy for wounds..." Wow. Feels like home.

A cross between the gin-soaked boy's adventure of Urien's Voyage and the intertwining Balzacian social cross-sections of The Counterfeiters. There's a critical tradition attached to this novel that calls it the most humorous and picaresque of Gide's books-- that's probably true, but it also works as a reassessment and deconstruction of serialized adventure stories and penny dreadfuls.