by Voltaire · Ediciones Akal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788446051190
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«Cándido, o el optimismo» is Voltaire's illustrated satirical novel, published by Ediciones Akal in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
Cándido believes, guided by his master Pangloss, that everything happens for the best, but a string of misfortunes shows him wars, fanaticism and injustices. With irony and sarcasm, Voltaire questions Leibniz's idea of «el mejor de los mundos posibles» and portrays cruelty and social hypocrisy.
This edition, published in 2021, belongs to the collection «La palabra ilustrada» (no. 1), within the series «Clásicos ilustrados», with illustrations by Anthony Garner.
For readers seeking a visual and ironic gateway to a classic of the 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.
