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Candide

ou l'optimisme, seconde partie (1760)

Édouard M Langille editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Exeter Press

Published:3rd Jul '03

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Pastiche, imitation but also a continuation of Voltaire’s most celebrated tale, Candide, seconde partie, picks up many of the original’s themes. Leibniz, Descartes and Newton are gently mocked; Pascal is accused of trying to make us hate humankind. If it cannot begin to compare with Voltaire’s masterpiece, the tale is nonetheless an amusing and instructive imitation.







ISBN: 9780859897235

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128 pages