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Let me start by saying this is a farce and Voltaire wrote it as a criticism of Leibnizian optimism. That's the "best possible worlds" philosophy. He was also doing some anti-trope stuff according to the Crash Course but I didn't really notice until John Green pointed it out.
So much happens in this book so quickly! Candide has a bunch of terrible things happen to him and his friends have terrible things happen to them. And they go on miserably until Candide decides maybe they should just garden. Which is an ending but it's an odd sort of ending. Everyone dying in an elaborate way would have fit better with the action packed plot. This book is on Thomas Jefferson's recommended reading list, if you're into that kind of thing.
Voltaire was an Enlightenment author and his racism is still staggering.
So much happens in this book so quickly! Candide has a bunch of terrible things happen to him and his friends have terrible things happen to them. And they go on miserably until Candide decides maybe they should just garden. Which is an ending but it's an odd sort of ending. Everyone dying in an elaborate way would have fit better with the action packed plot. This book is on Thomas Jefferson's recommended reading list, if you're into that kind of thing.
Voltaire was an Enlightenment author and his racism is still staggering.