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 EAN: 9780812000382 Format: Import ISBN: 0812000382 Label: Basil Blackwell Manufacturer: Basil Blackwell Number Of Pages: 124 Publication Date: 1963 Publisher: Basil Blackwell Studio: Basil Blackwell Related Items:
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 Rating:  - magnum opusCandide by Voltaire This is a great classic. "Candide" treats important philosophical questions in unusual way. The book is brilliant and often laught-out-loud hilarious. Rating: - Classic of world literatureVoltaire's book, originally published in 1759, is a classic of world literature. At face value, it is an allegorical attack in the belief on progress of its age, but I think it is much more than that. With a plot similar to that of a picaresque novel, it tells the story of Candide, a naïve young man taught by Dr. Plangloss ("all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds") on Leibnizian optimism. Several misfortunes forces him to go on a journey throughout the world (among the lands he travels, ... Read More Rating: - All is for the best in this worldCandide is an ambitious book. It should be an example for all `would-be' writers all over the world. It is not less than a frontal attack on the greatest philosopher of Voltaire's time, Leibniz, for whom the world he lived in was `the best possible'. 'Dear Pangloss (= know everything), when you were hanged, dissected, cruelly beaten, did you still think that everything was for the best in this word?' `I still hold my original opinion', replied Pangloss, `since Leibniz cannot be wrong.' This ... Read More Rating:  - More than just satire. A statement about the Human ConditionTo call this book a satire and suggest that it is funny, or well done, or relevant to recent times, may be true but that fails to point out what is obvious. Voltaire was a French Enlightment writer. He used wit to make his points. He made fun of the teachings of the Church but he was pushing for religious freedom. He had strong opinions and the book was a tool to presenting his thoughts. The book is considered to be one of the most significant works of Western Canon due to its portrayal of the human condition. ... Read More Rating: - The beginnings of nihilismComedy or tragedy? Which makes for better literature? How about both? In fact, many of the greatest works of literature are both comedies and tragedies. Candide is probably the greatest example of such a work from a French author. Penned under a pseudonym by the great thinker, Voltaire, this work is superficially an adventure novel about the title character traveling the known world to find his love, while accompanied by Pangloss. In reality, the book is a parody of human society, culture, philosophy, and ... Read More 
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