In Voltaire’s “Candide ... as there was no beauty to rediscover, in the end; it was all in his head. As I thought about the absurdity of Candide’s lifelong desire to reunite with ...

Voltaire’s Candide is one of those exceptional novels ... absurd to pretend everything will turn out nice and peachy in the end. On the other hand, some remain firm in their notion that there ...

In reality, “Optimism” is Candide’s subtitle, and it’s the first hint that Voltaire is putting the reader on.He was reacting with wry, winking irony to the prevailing 18th-century European ...

Matthew Sharpe works for Deakin, and received funding in the past from the ARC for work on the history of the idea of philosophy as a way of life. “Italy had its renaissance, Germany its ...

“Italy had its renaissance, Germany its reformation, France had Voltaire”, the historian Will Durant once commented. Born François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire (1694-1778) was known in his lifetime ...

Written in the 1700s by Voltaire, “Candide” has become a popular operetta that has ... “And I think what you get to at the end is perhaps a sense of hope.” A tragic tale on the human condition and ...