Candide. Voltaire

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Название: Candide

Автор: Voltaire

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Зарубежная классика

Серия: Dover Dual Language French

isbn: 9780486117638

isbn: 0

Аннотация:

Evergreen in its appeal, <I>Candide</I> makes us laugh at human folly and marvel at our reluctance to face reality and the truth. Voltaire's brilliant satire, first published in Paris in 1759, is relentless and unsparing. Virtue and vice, religion and romance, philosophy and science &#8212; all are fair game. <BR>Through the adventures of young Candide, his love Cun&#233;gonde, and his mentor Dr. Pangloss, we experience life's most crushing misfortunes. And we see the redeeming wisdom those misfortunes can bring &#8212; all the while enjoying Voltaire's witty&nbsp;burlesque of human excess. <BR>In this unique volume, readers who wish to follow every nuance of Voltaire's classic tale in the&nbsp;original French can do so with the aid of a new and exacting English translation on facing pages. Shane Weller's critical introduction illuminates the satire of <I>Candide</I> and the reasons for its enduring appeal.