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Voltaire: Kandid oder die beste Welt. Candide ou l'Optimisme Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2016, 4. Auflage Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Candide ou l' optimisme. Erstdruck: Genf 1759 (anonym). Erste deutsche Übersetzung von J. A. Philippi, Riga/Leipzig 1776. Der Text folgt der Übersetzung durch A. Ellissen von 1844. Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: François Marie Arouet oder auch Voltaire (Porträt von Nicolas de Largillière) Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 10 pt.… (mehr)
Weasel524: What separates the two: Travels is a satirical indictment of the society Swift saw around him, whereas Candide is a satirical indictment of popular philosophical theories of the time. Not a huge difference, but surely large enough for some. Candide also happens to be shorter and funnier, with Travels being more explorative… (mehr)
gennyt: Both books contain extraordinary, unlikely picaresque adventures combined with humorous satire on the politics, wars and religious issues of their time.
Is This An Overview? A looming fortune is within reach, only to be taken away by tragic events. Tragic events can seem hopeless, only to stumble into a new fortune. This book follows the oscillating fortune and misfortune of primarily Candide, and many other characters. Many who had everything, became those with nothing. While those who appear to have nothing, have a fortune. Not just fortune that has reversals, but also social values. Written as a critique on society, on how social perception of groups does not mean that the members behave in the manner they are expected to. Those who are supposed to represent the civilized behave in a barbarous manner, while those who are supposed to be barbarian behave in a civilized manner.
Caveats? This is a fast-paced adventure. Each chapter is short, without many details given. Lack of details, but filled with meaning.
Transitions have mixed qualities. There are antediluvian references, which would be better understood by those who know the various historic aspects of the era. ( )
I found this book very humorous; albeit, very strange. It's so hyperbolic that at times it's hard to believe that someone actually constructed such a tale; nevertheless, the happenings of the story can be traced back to true occurrences and injustices.
All-in-all, it was an entertaining, quick read. ( )
Juvenal once said, "It is difficult not to write satire", meaning that even if he put ink to paper with different intentions, his worldview would press him on in one direction. He and Voltaire would have got along famously, I suspect. ( )
Loved this book when I read it in college. Do I get extra points for having struggled through it in French? I was determined, I had a really large dictionnaire, and I knew it just well enough to realize that even an excellent translation wouldn't be the same as Voltaire's original.
I've downloaded it in e-book form courtesy of Project Gutenberg now, so one of these days when I'm at a loose end I'll re-read it in English. ( )
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Voltaire was the wittiest writeer in an age of great wits, and "Candide" is his wittiest novel. The subject he chose to exercise his wit upon in this novel is one which conceerns all of us; surprisingly enough, that subject is the problem of suffering. However much we may try to avoid the problem, we are all confronted at some time with this difficulty, that the Creator has made a universe where suffering abounds. If the Creator is good and all-powerful, as we are told he is, could he not have made a better world? If he could, what prevented him? If he could not, can we still believe that he is good and all-powerful? Can we indeed believe in him at all? Or if we do, can we believe that he is at all concerned with men and their sufferings? In times of widespread disasters such questioning becomes more general and more urgent. We are living in such times; and so was Voltaire. [Butt's introduction]
There lived in Westphalia, at the country seat of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, a young lad blessed by Nature with the most agreeable manners. You could read his character in his face. He combined sound judgment with unaffected simplicity; and that, I suppose, was why he was called Candide. The old family servants suspected that he was the son of the Baron's sisteer by a worthy gentleman of that neighbourhood, whom the young lady would never agree to marry because he could only claim seventy-one quarterings, the rest of his family tree having suffered from the ravages of time. [Butt's translation]
In the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh in Westphalia there lived a youth, endowed by Nature with the most gentle character.
[Bair translation] In the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh in Wesphalia, there once lived a youth endowed by nature with the gentlest of characters.
Zitate
"Fools admire everything in a celebrated author. I only read to please myself, and I only like what suits me."
“Why should you think it so strange that in some countries there are monkeys which insinuate themselves into the good graces of the ladies; they are a fourth part human, as I am a fourth part Spaniard.”
Letzte Worte
'That's true enough,' said Candide; 'but we must go and work in the garden.'
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Please don't combine editions which are just Candide eg Penguin Classics with editions which contain Candide with other works by Voltaire, eg Oxford World Classics Candide and other stories.
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Voltaire: Kandid oder die beste Welt. Candide ou l'Optimisme Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2016, 4. Auflage Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Candide ou l' optimisme. Erstdruck: Genf 1759 (anonym). Erste deutsche Übersetzung von J. A. Philippi, Riga/Leipzig 1776. Der Text folgt der Übersetzung durch A. Ellissen von 1844. Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: François Marie Arouet oder auch Voltaire (Porträt von Nicolas de Largillière) Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 10 pt.
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A looming fortune is within reach, only to be taken away by tragic events. Tragic events can seem hopeless, only to stumble into a new fortune. This book follows the oscillating fortune and misfortune of primarily Candide, and many other characters. Many who had everything, became those with nothing. While those who appear to have nothing, have a fortune. Not just fortune that has reversals, but also social values. Written as a critique on society, on how social perception of groups does not mean that the members behave in the manner they are expected to. Those who are supposed to represent the civilized behave in a barbarous manner, while those who are supposed to be barbarian behave in a civilized manner.
Caveats?
This is a fast-paced adventure. Each chapter is short, without many details given. Lack of details, but filled with meaning.
Transitions have mixed qualities. There are antediluvian references, which would be better understood by those who know the various historic aspects of the era. (