Candide Ou L'optimisme: Candide or the Optimist (French Edition) - Softcover

Voltaire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2070302393 ISBN 13: 9782070302390

Publisher: Gallimard, 2003

Synopsis

Dans Folioplus classiques, le texte intégral, enrichi d'une lecture d'image, écho pictural de l'oeuvre, est suivi de sa mise en perspective organisée en six points : - Mouvement littéraire : Les Lumières et l'Europe - Genre et registre : Littérature de combat, le conte clandestin - L'écrivain à sa table de travail : La fabrique du conte - Groupement de textes : Le mal sans système - Chronologie : Voltaire et son temps - Fiche : Des pistes pour rendre compte de sa sa lecture Recommandé pour les classes de lycée.

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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: Gallimard
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2070302393
• ISBN 13: 9782070302390
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 240