Candide: Ou L'optimisme - Extraits (ETONNANTS CLASSIQUES) - Softcover

Voltaire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2080720783 ISBN 13: 9782080720788

Publisher: Editions Flammarion, 1998

Synopsis

Le jeune Candide coule des jours heureux dans le château de Thunder-ten-tronckh, en compagnie de la belle Cunégonde et du savant docteur Pangloss. Mais un jour, il est chassé du château. Notre héros se lance alors dans un long périple à travers l'Europe et jusqu'aux Amériques où, de malheurs en malheurs, il expérimente qu'il ne vit pas, comme il le croyait, dans le " meilleur des mondes possibles "...

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About the Author

Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) (1694--1778) was one of the key thinkers of the European Enlightenment. Of his many works, "Candide" remains the most popular.
Peter Constantine was awarded the 1998 PEN Translation Award for "Six Early Stories "by Thomas Mann and the 1999 National Translation Award for "The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-three New Stories." Widely acclaimed for his recent translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel, he also translated Gogol's "Taras Bulba" and Tolstoy's "The Cossacks "for the Modern Library. His translations of fiction and poetry have appeared in many publications, including "The New Yorker, Harper's," and "Paris Review. "He lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Editions Flammarion
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2080720783
• ISBN 13: 9782080720788
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 130