by Voltaire · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781523955381
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«Cándido/ Nave» is Voltaire's coming-of-age novel, published by Createspace in paperback (74 pages, in Spanish).
Cándido, a young man raised on the idea that everything happens for the best, sees his optimism disproved by wars, shipwrecks, injustices and calamities during a journey through several countries. Voltaire satirises with irony the doctrine of providence and portrays the absurdities of the human condition, while the protagonist learns to distrust theories and to seek a realistic way of living.
Cándido originally appeared in 1759 under the title «Candide, ou l'Optimisme»; this Spanish edition was published in 2016.
Recommended for readers of classics and philosophy students who want a brief and biting satire on optimism and the human condition.
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.
