![]() ![]() In other words, Candide reflects Voltaire's ambivalent state of mind around the time he wrote the tale: a relative sense of personal happiness or peace associated. It also develops an interesting, and paradoxical, thesis regarding the relationship between Candide and the evolution of Voltaire's life and career: "The origins of Candide are to be found rather in Voltaire's happiness than his despair" (xxv). This choice of related texts, along with the translator's introduction, provides a rich background against which to read Voltaire's masterpiece.ĭavid Wootton's introduction is very useful and does an excellent job of situating Candide in the context of late-seventeenth, early-eighteenth-century debates about philosophical optimism, particularly with reference to such authors as P. ![]() Rousseau to Voltaire on the topic of optimism. Pope's Essay on Man, and a letter from J.-J. IN ADDITION TO CANDIDE, this little volume includes two earlier philosophical tales, "The History of the Travels of Scarmentado" and "The Comforter Comforted," the "Poem on the Lisbon Disaster," the article "Well (All is)" from the Philosophical Dictionary, a short feminist piece entitled "Wives Obey Your Husbands," and excerpts from Voltaire's correspondence, as well as selections from G. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000. Candide, the Contes Philosophique The text Candide (1759) is representative work of the author Voltaire in eighteenth century. Translated, with an introduction, by David Wootton. An overview of Candide, a system for automatic translation of French text to English text, which uses methods of information theory and statistics to. ![]()
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