Candide by Voltaire (PDF)

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In this new translation of Voltaire’s Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel’s irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that–had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American–he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaire’s philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaire’s life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.

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⭐Okay, to be honest I didn’t enjoy this book very much. I feel bad saying that, since it’s Voltaire, and his books are renown for being amazing, but I just couldn’t wait to put it down. It was required reading for a class, so I stuck it out until the end. It really makes you think, which is great, but it was kind of boring. It didn’t have much detail, which was fine, but sometimes the story moved so quickly that you had to read every sentence carefully. Definitely something you want to be alert for, because if you read it during a hazy half-asleep phase you’ll miss some crucial plot points.

⭐I had to read this book for my French lit class and out of all the books I read in the class this was my favorite.

⭐I love all about this book, I can read it all over again without getting bored. Love it ….love it

⭐Okay I read it not a lot to ingest

⭐A classic satire that’s ever so relevant even today.

⭐Really great read!

⭐Excellent version, great translation.

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