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100 1  Voltaire,|d1694-1778,|eauthor. 
240 10 Candide.|lEnglish 
245 10 Candide|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cVoltaire. 
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511 1  Read by Geoffrey Giuliano And The Icon Ensemble. 
520    Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by 
       Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The 
       novella has been widely translated, with English versions 
       titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, 
       The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism (1947). It 
       begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a 
       sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being 
       indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, 
       Professor Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt 
       cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow 
       and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and 
       experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire 
       concludes Candide with, if not rejecting Leibnizian 
       optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, 
       "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian 
       mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best" in the "best of 
       all possible worlds".  Candide is characterized by its 
       tone as well as by its erratic, fantastical, and fast-
       moving plot. A picaresque novel with a story similar to 
       that of a more serious coming-of-age narrative, it 
       parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles
       of which are caricatured in a tone that is bitter and 
       matter-of-fact. Still, the events discussed are often 
       based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years' 
       War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. As philosophers of 
       Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so does
       Candide in this short theological novel, albeit more 
       directly and humorously. Voltaire ridicules religion, 
       theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and 
       philosophers. Through Candide, he assaults Leibniz and his
       optimism.  Candide has enjoyed both great success and 
       great scandal. Immediately after its secretive publication,
       the book was widely banned to the public because it 
       contained religious blasphemy, political sedition, and 
       intellectual hostility hidden under a thin veil of 
       naïveté. However, with its sharp wit and insightful 
       portrayal of the human condition 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Voltaire,|d1694-1778.|tCandide|vTranslations into English.
650  0 Philosophy, Modern|y18th century|vHumor. 
650  1 French literature|y18th century|xIn translation. 
651  0 Europe|xCivilization|y18th century|vHumor. 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd 
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