by Terry Southern, Mason Hoffenberg · 10/18 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264025661
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«Candy» is the satirical novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, published by 10/18 in paperback (223 pages, in French).
A libertine parody of Voltaire's Candide set as a comedy of manners of the fifties. Candy Christian, a naive young American woman, sets out to see the world and encounters mystics, sex analysts and outlandish characters, in a satire that challenges conventional morality.
Originally published in 1958 under the pseudonym Maxwell Kenton, it was adapted into a movie in 1968 by Christian Marquand. This edition is from the «Domaine étranger» collection of 10/18.
For readers who appreciate literary satire and provocative humor, with an ironic and transgressive look at sexuality.
Terry Southern was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. He briefly wrote for Saturday Night Live in the 1980s.
