by Voltaire · tapa dura · ISBN 9788459913676
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«Cuentos» is Voltaire's collection of short stories, published by Orbis in 1988 in hardcover (254 pages, in Spanish).
Stories by Voltaire in which irony, wit and social criticism go hand in hand to portray the society of his time. This selection brings together several of the author's tales and offers a glimpse of the mordant gaze that characterizes his work.
Volume no. 71 of Jorge Luis Borges's «Biblioteca Personal» collection, with a prologue by Borges and a selection of stories by A. Gallard.
For readers interested in classical literature, Voltaire's work and readings selected by Jorge Luis Borges.
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.
