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Franois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), Voltaire, fue educado por jesuitas, pero a los pocos anos ya militaba en la libertina y elegante Sociedad del Templo. En lnglaterra conocio el espiritu cientifico y de tolerancia. Problemas politicos, huidas y enfrentamientos, cartas, satiras y publicaciones jalonaron toda su vida. Los cuentos de Voltaire (y este volumen reune tres de los mejores) son portadores de tesis filosoficas o politicas, pero el vehiculo literario resulta de una singular frescura y modernidad, muy en consonancia con los valores (tolerancia, pacifismo, antimilitarismo) que encarnan. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Its hero - well-named Candide - is forced out on a journey to determine whether this world is, as certain philosophers claim, an "optimal" world. Or at least one in which humans can find tolerable happiness. He is gradually disillusioned. Voltaire, far the best informed man of his age, draws on his colossal current affairs knowledge to describe gruesome real-event wars, earthquakes, torture, slavery, rape & deceit. Yet he also invents a glowing perfect society, the Eldorado, which in as little as 10 pages beats the combined utopias of Thomas More, Bacon & Condorcet. But agitated Candide finds only limited rest there. Will he & his companions at last reach contentment in a different manner & place?
If so, they will have to learn a lesson Voltaire himself, after purchasing his estate of Ferney, had only recently digested: to "work one's garden". Not a flowery pleasure park, but a "real" plot of land, yielding goods of immediate necessity & tangible nourishment.
A truly universal book. Brief, too. (