Candide est sans doute l'un de mes livres préférés. Philosophique et à la fois satirique, ce roman est une vraie leçon de vie. Voltaire nous montre les différentes facettes de la société, les vices qui la composent. L'optimisme, le pessimisme, la guerre, l'esclavage,etc nous montre que nous ne pouvo...
ChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingTranslator's NoteA Note on the TextA Note on NamesMap--Candide, or OptimismAppendices1. The alternative version of the opening of Chapter 222. Voltaire's 'Poem on the Lisbon Disaster'3. Entries from Voltaire's 'Philosophical Dictionary'Notes
ChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingTranslator's NoteA Note on the TextA Note on NamesMap--Candide, or OptimismAppendices1. The alternative version of the opening of Chapter 222. Voltaire's 'Poem on the Lisbon Disaster'3. Entries from Voltaire's 'Philosophical Dictionary'Notes
Ugh. I think that this is a book that I would have gotten a lot more out of had I been forced to read it in school. As it was, I didn't like it. I didn't think it was funny. I did think it was annoying and pointless and Candide himself has honestly got to be one of the stupidest lucky bastards in al...
Voltaire addresses the problem of evil in a humorous and allegorical manner that satirizes the philosophers, theologians and politicians of his day (1759). It's difficult to think a group that isn't subjected to some ridicule in this book.Voltaire goes out of his way to make it clear that he is assa...
Candide, by Voltaire **If there is one thing I cannot stand it is the straw-man argument. It is a lazy man’s approach to argument; empty, vapid, and cowardly. As brilliant as the movie “12 Angry Men” is, its straw-man argument against the death penalty makes me want to take a sledgehammer to the p...
I didn't expect this book to be so funny! What a nice surprise. The story is a lampoon of the phony, foolish "optimism" that says, "This must be the best of all possible worlds, because this is the way the world is." Even though the book was written over 200 years ago, it is still timely. It app...
One of the all-time greatest satires. A plot that could've made a decent adventure novel is handled instead as a continuous string of jokes and grotesque suffering (which is usually also presented as a joke) until it runs headlong into a surprisingly earnest ending.
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