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" Qu'est-ce qu'optimisme ? disait Cacambo. - Hélas ! dit Candide, c'est la rage de soutenir que tout est bien quand on est mal ". L'oeuvre la plus célèbre de Voltaire, un des textes français les plus universellement connus, démontre trois choses : que le monde va mal, et qu'il pourrait aller mieux, si l'on commençait par dire moins de bêtises. En attendant, mieux vaut rire que pleurer, tout en cultivant notre jardin. Candide conjugue la philosophie et le comique.
228 pages; Mass Market Paperback; Folio Classique
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J'ai dû lire Candide en anglais pour un cours au lycée, mais en le lisant, j'en suis tombé amoureux. J'ai décidé donc, pourquoi pas le lire en français, sa langue originale? Je recommande fort ce livre à tous!
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Candide is one of the funniest books ever written, and I envy you who are about to read it for the first time. Voltaire takes aim at contemporary philosophers' idea that the world may not be perfect, but God made it the best it can be, and any seeming evil has a higher purpose. To Voltaire, this denied the possibility of progress, so he subjects the protagonist to a series of calamities with no clear benefit to make the point that the world is a fine place, but it's up to us to make it better.
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