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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.
Candide revels in simplicity. It's like a new song, not quite sure whether you like it, but given some time one suddenly realizes it's a masterpiece. I must read Voltaire again. ( )
The plot is mainly about the adventures of the titular protagonist, Candide, who is banished from his uncle's estate after fooling around with Cunegande, the uncle's beautiful daughter. Until this point, Candide's life is sheltered and his thoughts are moulded to a great extent by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. Like his name, Pangloss loves to talk on all topics and show his intellect. He seems strangely optimistic and Candide blindly believes him. After the banishment, Candide's life upturns and he faces horrific trials and tribulations across various countries and meeting a lot of people, including a reunion with Cunegande and Pangloss, throughout the course of the story.
This is the most satirical book I've ever read. It has quite a lot of wit and even more of absurdities. Characters jabber on strange philosophical adages, characters travel across the world and back like it's no one's business (keeping in mind that the book was written in 1759!), characters appear and die and reappear and die again... I quite don't understand what to make of this.
The story is filled with a sharp wit. Voltaire arms to be hitting out at all existing establishments such as the monarchy and the church with his pen. His sarcasm is razor sharp and it's no surprise that the book ruffled quite a few feathers when it first came out.
After a point though, the absurdities became too much for me to take, though a more mature reader might be able to appreciate them better. I just started longing for normal writing again and hence rushed through the second half with just about 50% attention. This book didn't rock my world, nor was I expecting it to.
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Philosophers = bs ; doesn’t matter who. They all just talk in circles. Foolish optimism is harmful The rich tear themselves apart for a few moments of power (monarchy) and the poor pay for it. People that just mind their own business tend to be happier. Don’t fall in love with an idea or memory of someone. You will always be disappointed by what you find.
Lastly, Voltaire was one sassy lad. His writings are still very prevalent today. You have to look some things up while reading to get the joke, but it is rather humorous once you understand. ( )
Oh boy there's a LOT to unpack in this text. If you read it for the literal words, it's an adventure with a frustratingly naive sailor who seems to endlessly purse the love of his life. Digging deeper it's an intense commentary on society, religion, philosophy and education. ( )
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. ( )
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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.
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"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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