by Voltaire · Tapa dura · ISBN 9788440211026
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«Cándido» is the philosophical novel by the French writer and philosopher Voltaire, and gives this Spanish-language volume its title.
Young Cándido, educated by his tutor Pangloss, believes he lives in the best of all possible worlds. His misfortunes show him cruelty, injustice, and suffering that contradict that teaching. With irony, Voltaire satirizes Leibniz's optimism and offers a reflection on the need for a realistic and practical sense of life.
Cándido was originally published in 1759; this Spanish edition also includes other stories.
For readers interested in eighteenth-century philosophical satire.
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.
