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portada Candide: The Optimist
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
172
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm
Weight
0.26 kg.
ISBN13
9781974277957
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Candide: The Optimist

Francois-Marie Voltaire (Author) · Createspace · Paperback

Candide: The Optimist - Voltaire, Francois-Marie

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Synopsis "Candide: The Optimist"

One of France's Best Loved Philosophical Novels. This Edition is in both English and French Published in 1759, Candide is considered Voltaire's signature work, and it is here that he levels his sharpest criticism against nobility, philosophy, the church, and cruelty. Though often considered a representative text of the Enlightenment, the novel actually savagely satires a number of Enlightenment philosophies and demonstrates that the Enlightenment was a far from monolithic movement. Candide begins in the German town of Westphalia, where Candide, a young man, lives in the castle of Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh. A noted philosopher, Doctor Pangloss, tutors the baron on philosophical optimism, the idea that "all is for the best . . . in this best of all worlds." Candide, a simple man, first accepts this philosophy, but as he experiences the horrors of war, poverty, the maliciousness of man, and the hypocrisy of the church, he begins to doubt the voracity of Pangloss's theory. Thus, philosophical optimism is the focus of Votaire's satire; anti-war and anti-church refrains also run throughout the novel.

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