Candide - Voltaire - 图书 -  - 9798697979983 - 2020年10月14日
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Candide

Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash. Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters.

介质类型 图书     Paperback Book   (平装胶订图书)
已发行 2020年10月14日
ISBN13 9798697979983
页数 96
商品尺寸 127 × 203 × 6 mm   ·   113 g
语言 英语  

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