by Voltaire · Unidad Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481301731
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«Cándido» is Voltaire's coming-of-age novel and satire, published by Unidad Editorial in hardcover (95 pages, in Spanish).
Cándido, educated by the philosopher Pangloss in the idea that he inhabits the best of all possible worlds, is expelled from the castle and travels the world amid wars, shipwrecks and abuses. Voltaire uses irony to question philosophical optimism and denounce the intolerance, social hypocrisy and fanaticism of his time.
Work originally published in 1759 as Candide, ou l'Optimisme. This 1999 edition is number 56 of the collection Las 100 joyas del milenio and includes a prologue by Miguel Sánchez-Ostiz.
For readers of Enlightenment classics and 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.
