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Candide
by Voltaire
3.5 stars rounded down for Goodreads.
This is slaptick satire at its finest. Outrageous, over the top, outlandish, absurd...
As Candide travels through Europe enduring a vast assortment of mistreatment, it quickly becomes clear that rape, murder, torture, slavery, dismemberment: these are all states of being that are commonplace in Candide's world, accepted as a normal part of the human condition. Like you're deficient if they haven't happened to you.
"The law of nature teaches us to kill our neighbor. And this is how people behave all over the world."
The ugliest of human truths are stated with simplicity and practicality. Utimately I was left laughing over the absurdity of a society that would tolerate, let alone perpetuate, these states of being.
"What is optimism? It is the mania of maintaining that everything is well when we are wretched."
This 18th century French philosopher had some interesting bites to share.
This is slaptick satire at its finest. Outrageous, over the top, outlandish, absurd...
As Candide travels through Europe enduring a vast assortment of mistreatment, it quickly becomes clear that rape, murder, torture, slavery, dismemberment: these are all states of being that are commonplace in Candide's world, accepted as a normal part of the human condition. Like you're deficient if they haven't happened to you.
"The law of nature teaches us to kill our neighbor. And this is how people behave all over the world."
The ugliest of human truths are stated with simplicity and practicality. Utimately I was left laughing over the absurdity of a society that would tolerate, let alone perpetuate, these states of being.
"What is optimism? It is the mania of maintaining that everything is well when we are wretched."
This 18th century French philosopher had some interesting bites to share.