Sometimes you can be a genius and lack the most basic critical lucidity. Thus Voltaire's philosophical tales considered as mere amusements and tragedies as the pinnacle of his work. Well, Madam Posterity has decided otherwise and how not to give her reason? For Voltaire, of course, was much better storyteller playwright! And if, among all his tales, there is one that shines even more than others by the quality of his style, the virtuosity of its plot and its fine intelligence is certainly one ...
A Does anyone ever carried the art of prose to a higher degree of perfection? A Does anyone ever said things as deep as a wonderfully ironic way? A do we ever made of Reason and Common Sense a higher praise? "Candide" is more than a book, it is a magnificent example of wisdom that first reads, then we meditate and ideally try to put it into practice ... Ah, what misfortunes men would avoid if only they followed some advice we lavish in these pages the most spiritual of our philosophers!
