by Voltaire · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782038717013
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«Zadig» is Voltaire's philosophical tale, published by Larousse Editions in paperback (223 pages, in French).
Zadig, a cultured and honest young Babylonian, trusts that his virtue will bring him good fortune, but a chain of misfortunes and misunderstandings leads him to question the justice of fate. Amid arbitrary judgments, betrayals and amorous adventures, Voltaire deploys a mordant satire of intolerance, hypocrisy and abuse of power, turning his protagonist's trials into a reflection on good, evil and happiness.
Work originally published in 1747 under the title «Zadig ou la Destinée»; the Larousse edition belongs to the Petits Classiques collection and reproduces the complete text.
Suitable reading for students of French and for those wishing to approach eighteenth-century French literature and Voltaire's philosophical satire.
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.
