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This is a truly hilarious satire which starts with poor Candide being kicked out of the castle where he was born and brought up, after he falls in love with the baron’s daughter, Cunegonde. Then his troubles begin, and he ends up travelling all around the world looking for his beloved.
Candide experiences trial after trial, each one as bad and as far-fetched as the last. However, the way in which these trials were described did not make one feel too sorry for him; the story had more of the feel o ...more
Candide experiences trial after trial, each one as bad and as far-fetched as the last. However, the way in which these trials were described did not make one feel too sorry for him; the story had more of the feel o ...more
Hilariously funny satire. Another classic showing the silliness of human nature, and how it has never changed, regardless of all the progress in technology, and no matter how many laws "progressives" pass, it still won't change. A fun, easy read, written by a master.
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It’s virtually impossible to say anything about Voltaire’s inimitable parody (of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Théodicée) without having an intimate knowledge of the Zeitgeist of the author’s time. If
Candide
were the work of a modern-day writer, we’d be tempted to call it hallucinogenic—i.e., clearly the result of a binge on drugs. Yes, it’s that imaginatively crazy—and would render any current (cinematic) attempt at even a “slasher film” little more than risible. As for a current-day equival
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Excellent and charming, good for the mind!
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