Candide
ou l'optimisme, seconde partie (1760)

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.

Frontispice: gravure sur bois de Howard Simon, 'Candide', Ives Washburn, New York, 1929

Liste des abreviations

Introduction

Fac-simile du frontispice de l'edition de 1760

Candide, ou l'optimisme, seconde partie

Notes et commentaires

Dossier critique

Bibliographie selective

Édouard M. Langille is Professor of French Language and Literature at the St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.