by Voltaire · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440205858
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«Cándido y otros cuentos» is the volume of philosophical tales by Voltaire, published by FisicalBook in hardcover (221 pages, in Spanish).
It collects five tales: «Cándido», «Memnón», «Micromegas», «Historia de los viajes de Escarmentado» and «El hombre de los cuarenta escudos». With irony and sharpness, Voltaire satirizes the Europe of his time and criticizes superstition, intolerance and fanaticism from the pedagogical perspective of the Enlightenment.
It belongs to the Biblioteca de Clásicos Universales collection. The selection is by Paulino Garagorri; translation and introduction by Guillermo Graíño Ferrer.
Recommended for readers of eighteenth-century classics, social satire and philosophical tales.
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.
