Candide, or The Optimist
Voltaire ; Marine Ganofsky (Introduksjon)
A beautiful edition of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece with an introduction by Dr Marine Ganofsky. Les mer
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A beautiful edition of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece with an introduction by Dr Marine Ganofsky.
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Utgitt:
2020
Forlag: Macmillan Collector's Library
Innbinding: Innbundet
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 176
ISBN: 9781529021080
Format: 16 x 10 cm
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«Candide remains politically topical and its McCarthy-era satire has, unfortunately, lost little relevance»
«It was no fable inhabiting some make-believe or symbolic location; rather, it was a report on the current state of the world, deliberately set among the headlines of the day»
Imprisoned in the Bastille at the age of twenty-three for a criminal libel against the Regent of France, Francois-Marie Arouet
was freed in 1718 with a new name, Voltaire, and the completed manuscript of his first play, Oedipe, which became a huge hit
on the Paris stage in the same year. For the rest of his long and dangerously eventful life, this cadaverous genius shone
with uninterrupted brilliance as one of the most famous men in the world. Revered, and occasionally reviled, in the royal
courts of Europe, his literary outpourings and fearless campaigning against the medieval injustices of church and state in
the midst of the 'Enlightenment' did much to trigger the French Revolution and to formulate the present notions of democracy.
But above all, Voltaire was an observer of the human condition, and his masterpiece Candide stands out as an astonishing testament
to his unequalled insight into the way we were and probably always will be.