by Voltaire · CIRCULO DE LECTORES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422651291
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«Cándido o el optimismo» is Voltaire's satirical novel, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (172 pages, in Spanish).
Young Candide lives in the castle of the Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, where his tutor Pangloss teaches him that everything happens for the best in the best of all possible worlds. After being expelled, he travels through Europe and America and witnesses wars, shipwrecks, injustices and disappointments that put that optimistic philosophy to the test.
The work originally appeared in 1759; this edition includes illustrations by Robert Llimós and a translation by Carlos Pujol.
For readers of eighteenth-century classics and philosophical satire; also for those who appreciate illustrated editions.
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.
