by Voltaire · Tapa dura · ISBN 9789726116011
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«Cândido» is Voltaire's philosophical novel, published in hardcover (126 pages, in Portuguese).
Candide, educated by his tutor Pangloss in the optimism that everything happens for the best, is expelled from his sheltered life and travels through a world of wars and injustices. Voltaire's irony satirizes that philosophy and denounces inequalities and corruption, closing with the precept of cultivating one's own garden.
Work originally published in 1759 as «Candide, ou l'Optimisme». The Portuguese translation is by Maria Archer.
Classic of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, for readers interested in social satire and the novel of ideas.
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.
