University of Exeter Press

Candide

ou l'optimisme, seconde partie (1760)

    • 128 Pages


    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.


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