Candide

In a wonderful new translation of Voltaire's satire masterpiece, all the famous tacts about the wonderful work of enlightenment, sarcastic and sharp social commentary have been restored and updated.

Voltaire may have already prejudiced against Europe in the 18th century - this place is definitely not "the best of all possible world". But Voltaire discovered the mother of comic material in its decadent society, authoritarian ruler, civil war, religious war, and other diseases. So, as Voltaire had expected, Peter Constantine 's thoughtful translation is a lot of fun to introduce all the subtle and enthusiastic pleasures of this book.

Young Candide's worldwide trot, his mentor Dr. Pangloss, Martin, and Candid's emotions, especially because they bravely evoked expectations for people's lives by asylum, poverty, cannibalism, countless deprivation, especially accidents It is easy to cause. Mocking and deliberation on the role of suffering

By transforming the view of Candidy from Pang Russian's optimism to realism, Voltaire's philosophy is delicately clarified - Even Utopia life is not happy but survival - but great literary greatness and rarity Provide pleasure

The complete title of "Candide" is translated as "Candide: or, All for the Best" and "Candide: or, the the Optimist". One of the central principles of his philosophy is that "everything must be the best because everything is created for a specific purpose." Exaggeration shows that it is absurd to ti to this philosophy. For example, Pangloss does not allow Candide to save Baptists of James. Through the story, something called "best", such as "most spectacular and most fun among all possible castles" is very simple, with only one door and two windows.

Voltaire is the author of the novel Candide, also known as "optimism". The novel "Voltaire" explains the optimistic view as illogical and absurd. In Candide, Voltaire respected the idea of ​​optimism. It was widely used by philosophers during enlightenment. In this story, Candid is a young man experienced a series of career and adventure experiencing adversity and adversity worldwide. - ... The article points out: "Leibniz does not care about the world he observes, but focuses on the world and his formulas can prove it." His logic is As Leibniz made impossible impossible, Leibniz ignored social problems and flaws that were so obvious in front of him. This is the first confrontation place between Leibniz and Voltaire.

When he wrote Candide, he was very optimistic - it seems that Leibniz's optimism is more optimistic than the Pope. Voltaire's Candide In Candide is the illegal nephew of the hero of this book, Baron. He fell in love with the baron's daughter and was quickly driven out of the house. This brought Candide's misfortune and lucky journey one after another. Immediately after he left the baron's house and met some Bulgars, his ex-mentor Pangloth joined him.