by Voltaire · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419311245
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«Cándido o el Optimismo» is Voltaire's philosophical novel, published by Navona Editorial in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
Candide, a young man who believes he lives in the best of all possible worlds, travels with his mentor Pangloss and other characters through a world of wars, shipwrecks and misfortunes that test his optimism. The novel is a satire of Leibnizian optimism and of eighteenth-century institutions.
Translation by José Ramón Monreal and preface by Italo Calvino. Original work published in 1759 as 'Candide, ou l'Optimisme'.
Recommended for readers of classics and philosophical satire; its critical message remains relevant in the twenty-first century.
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.
