Candide: Dual Language Voltaire
Candide: Dual Language Voltaire Evergreen in its appeal, Candide makes us laugh at human folly and marvel at our reluctance to face reality and the truth. Virtue and vice, religion and romance,…
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Candide: Dual Language Voltaire
Evergreen in its appeal, Candide makes us laugh at human folly and marvel at our reluctance to face reality and the truth. Virtue and vice, religion and romance, philosophy and science -- all are fair game.Through the adventures of young Candide, his love Cunegonde, and his mentor Dr. Voltaire's brilliant satire, first published in Paris in 1759, is relentless and unsparing.
And we see the redeeming wisdom those misfortunes can bring -- all the while enjoying Voltaire's witty burlesque of human excess.In this unique volume, readers who wish to follow every nuance of Voltaire's classic tale in the original French can do so with the aid of a new and exacting English translation on facing pages. Pangloss, we experience life's most crushing misfortunes. Shane Weller's critical introduction illuminates the satire of Candide and the reasons for its enduring
Candide: Dual Language Voltaire
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