by Voltaire · Editions Flammarion Gallimard (Educa Books) · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070384822
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«Candide et autres contes» is Voltaire's collection of philosophical tales published by Folio in paperback (512 pages, in French).
«Candide» recounts the misadventures of a young optimist who travels the world while trying to uphold the idea that everything happens for the best; the other stories, with irony and satire, question optimistic philosophy, society, and the human condition.
Edition by Frédéric Deloffre and Jacques Van den Heuvel, with an afterword by Roland Barthes. Number 2358 in the Folio classique collection.
Recommended for students of French and lovers of classic French literature.
François-Marie Arouet, known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
