Publisher: Feniks
Year of publishing: 2006
Author: Volter
The first edition of Voltaire’s Candide appeared in 1759. Voltaire, who knew how to mock at all and in Candide himself, was not obliged to those who chose him as a subject of his criticism. Because Candide’s personality embodies optimism, the thought has emerged that Candide is the most pronounced work of the pessimistic period of Voltaire’s literary work. However, the satirical critique of cosmological optimism with all its sharpness, which is so characteristic of Voltaire’s criticism, does not