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Candide

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Pastiche, imitation but also a continuation of Voltaire’s most celebrated tale, Candide, seconde partie, picks up many of the original’s themes. Leibniz, Descartes and Newton are gently mocked; Pas...
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Pastiche, imitation but also a continuation of Voltaire’s most celebrated tale, Candide, seconde partie, picks up many of the original’s themes. Leibniz, Descartes and Newton are gently mocked; Pascal is accused of trying to make us hate humankind. If it cannot begin to compare with Voltaire’s masterpiece, the tale is nonetheless an amusing and instructive imitation.






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Price: £20.00
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Imprint: University of Exeter Press
Series: Exeter Textes Littéraires
Publication Date: 03 July 2003
Trim Size: 9.00 X 5.90 in
ISBN: 9780859897235
Format: Paperback
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FICTION / General, FICTION / Classics, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: general
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Édouard M. Langille is Professor of French Language and Literature at the St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada.



Frontispice: gravure sur bois de Howard Simon, 'Candide', Ives Washburn, New York, 1929

Liste des abreviations

Introduction

Fac-simile du frontispice de l'edition de 1760

Candide, ou l'optimisme, seconde partie

Notes et commentaires

Dossier critique

Bibliographie selective