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CANDIDE (Paperback)

by VOLTAIRE (Author)
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« On oublie que sous la couche de nos souvenirs d’explications de texte, Candide cache un livre admirable de drôlerie, d’aventure, d’ironie, d’invention et de lucidité, antidote éternel à tous les fanatismes passés, présents et à venir.
En faisant ressortir le caractère éminemment burlesque et provocateur de Candide, on amènera plus facilement les lecteurs à découvrir le texte sous un jour nouveau. Mon souhait serait que l’on aborde l’œuvre sans l’appréhension d’un passage obligé, mais avec la curiosité de la découverte d’un conte philosophique, d’une "plaisanterie", d’une merveilleuse "coiennerie" comme l’appelait Voltaire. » - Jean-Marc Rochette --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Funny!, May 21 2007
By Shadow (canada) - See all my reviews
This is a darling little book by Voltaire. The Original Voltaire, who the musician took his name from... though the original Voltaire wasn't originally named that either...
After getting far too mad at The Witching Hour to keep reading it at the moment, this is soooooo refreshing! It's an 18th century French classic; clever, funny, and extremely streamlined. It's short and to the point. The thing reads more like a plot outline than an actual book and that's looking pretty damn good right about now. I've been reading for ten minutes and I'm finished chapter 2.
Later.... In chapter 4 the philosopher gets an STD and tells about the long line of people who passed it on to one another up to him, including someone who "owed it to a marquise". Now he won't be able to pass it on "because I'm dying". In one part Candide walks over bodies, "the ground was strewn with brains and severed arms and legs", but it's not treated in a way to be the least bit significant. Terrible things keep happening and nobody seems to care. "When his treatment (an enema) was over, he had lost only an eye and an ear". It's such hilariously dry humor, I love it. It's like this book is a direct French ancestor of Monty Python.
These are my first impressions, let's see how things turn out.
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4.0 out of 5 stars review, Jun 17 2000
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