by Voltaire · Tapa dura · ISBN 9788448703417
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«Cándido» is the philosophical novel by Voltaire, published by Altaya in hardcover (285 pages, in Spanish).
The young Cándido, educated in the optimism of his master Pangloss, is expelled from his home and sets out on a journey around the world. Wars, shipwrecks, and abuses confront him with suffering and injustice; with satire, Voltaire questions the idea that we live in the best of all possible worlds and reflects on happiness.
The work was originally published in 1759; the Spanish-language edition of «Cándido» dates from the 1990s.
For readers interested in philosophical satire and the classics of the French Enlightenment.
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.
