voltaire francois marie arouet candide and other works
Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Candide and Other Works
Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and is one of the thinkers who prepared the way for the French Revolution. This volume contains: Zadig (1748), the story of a young man who becomes king of Babylon; Candide (1759), Voltaire's most famous tale of all; and (in a new translation by Editor James Fowler) The Ingenu (1767), in which the hero, raised by Huron Indians, discovers the ways of Europe. The heroes of these tales are young, handsome, talented, and naive. All three are animated by Voltaire's sparkling wit, but also by his dark satire of ancient regime society. The volume closes with a new translation of Nanine, Voltaire's three-act comedy which was seen, first as dangerously meritocratic, then as anti-revolutionary. The hero falls in love with a servant girl: but will he overcome society's prejudice and marry her? With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent.
887 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Candide and Other Stories
The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period and the crowning achievement of that caustic, brilliantly learned age was Voltaire’s Candide, published in 1759, at the height of its author’s enormous European fame. Following the worldwide encounters – with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence and human insanity – of its hero and his incomparably absurd tutor, Dr Pangloss, Candide is the most entertaining of all philosophical novels and the most philosophical of entertainments.
3339 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Candide
'Private misfortunes make up the general good, so that the more private misfortunes there are, the greater is the general good.' (Pangloss) After being caught kissing the Baron's daughter Cunegonde, gullible ingenue Candide is evicted from the castle where he lives to find himself wandering a world awash with disease, injustice and slaughter. Can he reconcile what he sees and experiences with the optimistic philosophy of his mentor Pangloss, that they live in 'the best of all possible worlds' and that 'everything is for the best'?
1077 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Candide
Comme disait parfois son precepteur Pangloss, si Candide n'avait pas ete chasse d'un beau chateau a grands coups de pied au derriere pour l'amour de mademoiselle Cunegonde, il ne serait pas la, dans sa petite metairie pleine d'orangers, a manger des pistaches et a cultiver son jardin. Les voyages et les aventures de Candide a la poursuite de la sagesse et du bonheur donnent le vertige. Comment garder son optimisme quand on va d'horreurs en catastrophes ? Partout dans le monde, les hommes sont fanatiques, mechants, belliqueux. Candide doit apprendre la tolerance, l'art de vivre en paix avec soi et avec les autres. Et l'amour de la liberte.
501 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Candide
Why Does Voltaire's Candide Endure? Voltaire's masterpiece of satire Candide was written between July and December 1758 and published simultaneously in Geneva, Paris and Amsterdam in January 1759. The events in the book unlike most works of fiction are astutely based on the current state of Voltaire's contemporary world and culled from the headlines of his day. No major power center was omitted. Arbiters of social status, sex/love, money, war and religion were all lambasted within the pages of Candide.
321 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Candide
Comme disait parfois son precepteur Pangloss, si Candide n'avait pas ete chasse d'un beau chateau a grands coups de pied au derriere pour l'amour de mademoiselle Cunegonde, il ne serait pas la, dans sa petite metairie pleine d'orangers, a manger des pistaches et a cultiver son jardin. Les voyages et les aventures de Candide a la poursuite de la sagesse et du bonheur donnent le vertige. Comment garder son optimisme quand on va d'horreurs en catastrophes ? Partout dans le monde, les hommes sont fanatiques, mechants, belliqueux. Candide doit apprendre la tolerance, l'art de vivre en paix avec soi et avec les autres. Et l'amour de la liberte.
301 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Candide. В1 (+CD)
Young Candide is driven from the castle where he once lived happily, surrounded by the optimistic Pangloss and his beloved Cunegonde. Unfamiliar with the cruelty of men, Candide faces war and the Inquisition, leading the adventurous life of a fugitive. Will he succeed in finding his beautiful Cunegonde? It’s a long journey, characterised by friends as well as hardships and danger.
3105 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Candide, or Optimism
In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most glorious satires of the eighteenth century. His eponymous hero is an innocent young man whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own fortune. As he and his various companions roam over the world, an outrageous series of disasters - earthquakes, syphilis, the Inquisition - sorely test the young hero's optimism, holding a mirror up to all fanatics, zealots and moral reformers of humankind. Translated and Edited by Theo Cuffe with an Introduction by Michael Wood
2054 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Candide, or Optimism
Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his tutor Dr Pangloss. But after committing an indiscretion and being expelled from his family home, Candide finds himself on a journey that will take him to Portugal, Argentina, Britain and Turkey and expose him to torture, war, shipwreck and natural disasters, leading him to question whether he is really living in the “best of possible worlds”. Published in 1759, when it became a best-seller and stirred up much controversy, Candide is an exhilarating picaresque romp and a biting satire by one of the Enlightenment’s major figures that still resonates to this day.
2129 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Micromegas and Other Stories
Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand languages and has been expelled from his homeland for writing a heretical tract. On Saturn he befriends the local secretary of the Academy of Sciences – a comparative dwarf, being only two kilometres high – and the two decide to travel to earth together, where they will make startling discoveries about human nature. At once a story-length Bildungsroman and a philosophical tale, ‘Micromegas’ is a classic Enlightenment text, and is accompanied in this volume by thirteen other pieces – including ‘Plato’s Dream’ and ‘Memnon’ – all in a new translation by acclaimed French specialist Douglas Parmee. Contains: ‘Cosi-Sancta’, ‘Plato’s Dream’, ‘Micromegas’, ‘The Way of the World’, ‘Memnon’, ‘Letter from a Turk’, ‘Scarmentado’s Travels’, ‘Consolation for Two’, ‘Story of a Good Brahmin’, ‘Jeannot and Colin’, ‘Wives, Submit Yourselves unto Your Own Husbands’, ‘A Short Digression’, ‘An Adventure in India’, ‘The Adventure of Memory’. Foreword by Nicholas Cronk.
2129 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Candide, or The Optimist
Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire's hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment. This classic of French literature has been a bestseller for over two hundred years. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This classic of French literature features an introduction by Dr Marine Ganofsky. Young nobleman Candide lives a sheltered and comfortable life under the tutorship of the ridiculous Dr Pangloss who espouses the prevailing 18th-century philosophy of Optimism. Following an indiscretion, Candide is cast out into the world which according to Pangloss is 'the best of all possible worlds'. But this is not so, Candide and his companions encounter nothing but ludicrous calamities in their madcap travels around the world - war crimes, earthquakes, inquisitions and chain gangs - all based with horrible closeness on real events of the 18th century.
2435 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Candide et autres contes
suivi de L'Histoire des voyages de Scarmentado et de Poeme sur le desastre de Lisbonne Candide nous conte les mesaventures d'un voyageur philosophe qui affronte les horreurs de la guerre et les sanglants caprices de la Nature ; qui connait les desillusions de l'amour et decouvre les turpitudes de ses semblables, faisant a l'occasion l'experience de leurs dangereuses fantaisies. Pourtant si l'homme est un bien mechant animal et si l'existence n'est qu'une cascade de catastrophes, est-ce une raison pour que le heros perde sa serenite et le recit son allegresse ? Sous la forme d'une ironique fiction, Candide propose une reflexion souriante sur l'omnipresence de la deraison qui puise sa force aux sources vives d'une experience humaine, celle de l'auteur. Candide, on l'a dit, ce sont les « Confessions » de Voltaire, et c'est en cela qu'il nous emeut. Mais ce « roman d'apprentissage » est aussi - et peut-etre surtout - un festival merveilleusement ordonne de drolerie et de fantaisie sarcastique, ruisselant d'un immense savoir maitrise qui ne dedaigne jamais de porter le rire jusqu'au sublime. C'est en cela qu'il nous eblouit et qu'il nous charme. Edition de Sylviane Leoni.
677 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Miracles and Idolatry
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Voltaire's short, radical and iconoclastic essays on philosophical ideas from angels to idolatry, miracles to wickedness, make wry observations about human beliefs, and mock hypocrisy and extravagant piety - his call to his fellow men to act with reason and see through the lies they are fed by their leaders has provided inspiration to freethinkers everywhere.
1451 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet L'Ingenu
"On m'a toujours appele l'Ingenu [...] parce que je dis toujours naivement ce que je pense, comme je fais tout ce que je veux." Venu du Canada, debarque sur nos cotes un jeune homme a L'humeur vagabonde. On s'emerveille-de son bon sens et de son honnetete, on le reconnait bas-breton par miracle, on le convertit, on le baptise. Les malentendus ne font que commencer. En France, tout surprend ce pretendu sauvage : nos usages, nos moeurs, nos idees. Pour nous reveler nos ridicules et nos vices, denoncer L'obscurantisme et l'oppression, Voltaire adopte le point de vue d'un temoin naif et sagace. D'ou ce perpetuel humour, ce style enchanteur et eclatant de gaiete.
642 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet L'Ingenu
" On m'a toujours appele l'Ingenu [...] parce que je dis toujours naivement ce que je pense, comme je fais tout ce que je veux. " Venu du lointain Canada, debarque un jour sur nos cotes un jeune homme a l'humeur vagabonde, un " Huron a l'air martial et doux ". On s'emerveille de son bon sens et de son honnetete, on le reconnait bas-breton par miracle, on le convertit, on le baptise. Les malentendus ne font que commencer. En France, tout surprend ce pretendu sauvage. Nos usages, nos m?urs, nos idees, tout ce qui nous est le plus familier l'ebahit. A Versailles, a la Bastille, face aux jesuites ou aupres de sa fiancee, sa raison et son courage seront mis a rude epreuve. Pour nous reveler nos ridicules et nos vices, denoncer l'obscurantisme et l'oppression, Voltaire adopte le point de vue d'un temoin naif et sagace. D'ou ce perpetuel humour, ce style enchanteur et eclatant de gaiete.
301 Руб.Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet Micromegas
Apres une etape sur Saturne ou il se fait un compagnon de voyage, philosophe comme lui, Micromegas, habitant de Sirius, vient visiter la terre des hommes, « notre petite fourmiliere » : occasion de peripeties nombreuses et de dialogues varies. Puis, a la fin du livre, les deux personnages reprennent leur voyage, on ne sait vers quelle destination. Le lecteur ne les accompagne plus. Il demeure aux cotes des Terriens, ses semblables. Si l'etrangete dont joue Voltaire dans ce conte qu'il publie en 1752 est d'abord celle des deux voyageurs, des autres mondes habites et du voyage interstellaire, c'est bien ensuite celle des Terriens qu'il met en scene : etrangete physique, puis intellectuelle et philosophique. Le livre ainsi nous invite a changer de role, a philosopher nous aussi, non sur des creatures imaginaires, mais au contraire sur l'Homme. A l'evidence, Voltaire s'amuse. Son rire pourtant n'est pas gratuit : Micromegas est une histoire philosophique, une magni?que lecon de « gai savoir ». Edition presentee et annotee par Jean Goulemot.
465 Руб.suivi de L'Histoire des voyages de Scarmentado et de Poeme sur le desastre de Lisbonne Candide nous conte les mesaventures d'un voyageur philosophe qui affronte les horreurs de la guerre et les sanglants caprices de la Nature ; qui connait les desillusions de l'amour et decouvre les turpitudes de ses semblables, faisant a l'occasion l'experience de leurs dangereuses fantaisies. Pourtant si l'homme est un bien mechant animal et si l'existence n'est qu'une cascade de catastrophes, est-ce une raison pour que le heros perde sa serenite et le recit son allegresse ? Sous la forme d'une ironique fiction, Candide propose une reflexion souriante sur l'omnipresence de la deraison qui puise sa force aux sources vives d'une experience humaine, celle de l'auteur. Candide, on l'a dit, ce sont les « Confessions » de Voltaire, et c'est en cela qu'il nous emeut. Mais ce « roman d'apprentissage » est aussi - et peut-etre surtout - un festival merveilleusement ordonne de drolerie et de fantaisie sarcastique, ruisselant d'un immense savoir maitrise qui ne dedaigne jamais de porter le rire jusqu'au sublime. C'est en cela qu'il nous eblouit et qu'il nous charme. Edition de Sylviane Leoni.
