Candido, o L'ottimismo : racconto satirico pdf

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his nom de plume Voltaire, he was famous for his wit, and his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—and of slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.

Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets.Voltaire was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. His best-known work and magnum opus, Candide, is a novella which comments on, criticizes, and ridicules many events, thinkers, and philosophies of his time.

Candido, o L'ottimismo : racconto satirico pdf by Voltaire

Con Candido, pubblicato simultaneamente nel 1759 a Parigi, Londra ed Amsterdam, Voltaire portava a perfezione il nuovo genere letterario da lui creato, quel conte philosophique la cui caratteristica essenziale risiede nella tensione dialettica tra allusione ideologica ed illusione narrativa. Le convulse e mirabolanti avventure di Candido, offrono alla scintillante, ironica ed incisiva penna di Voltaire l'opportunità di dimostrare la vanità dell'ottimismo razionalista leibniziano e della teoria del migliore dei mondi possibili. E il lettore di ieri, come quello di oggi, preso dal frenetico ritmo narrativo cede all'incantesimo e si rende partecipe del sottile ed intelligente gioco con il quale la consumata maestria dell'"ultimo degli scrittori felici" (Barthes) lo induce a passare velocemente dall'arbitrio narrativo alla meditazione filosofica.