Candide: A Dual-language BookEvergreen in its appeal, Candide makes us laugh at human folly and marvel at our reluctance to face reality and the truth. Voltaire's brilliant satire, first published in Paris in 1759, is relentless and unsparing. Virtue and vice, religion and romance, philosophy and science — all are fair game. Through the adventures of young Candide, his love Cunégonde, and his mentor Dr. Pangloss, we experience life's most crushing misfortunes. And we see the redeeming wisdom those misfortunes can bring — all the while enjoying Voltaire's witty burlesque of human excess. In this unique volume, readers who wish to follow every nuance of Voltaire's classic tale in the original French can do so with the aid of a new and exacting English translation on facing pages. Shane Weller's critical introduction illuminates the satire of Candide and the reasons for its enduring appeal. |
Contents
HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY RESIDENCE AND HOW HE WAS DRIVEN FROM IT | 3 |
WHAT HAPPENED TO CANDIDE AMONG THE BULGARIANS² | 7 |
HOW CANDIDE ESCAPED FROM THE BULGARIANS AND WHAT BECAME OF HIM | 11 |
HOW CANDIDE CAME ACROSS HIS FORMER PHILOSOPHY MASTER DOCTOR PANGLOSS AND WHAT ENSUED | 15 |
TEMPEST SHIPWRECK EARTHQUAKE AND WHAT HAPPENED TO DOCTOR PANGLOSS CANDIDE AND THE ANABAPTIST JACQUES | 21 |
HOW A FINE AUTODAFÉ WAS HELD TO PREVENT EARTHQUAKES AND HOW CANDIDE WAS FLOGGED ON THE BACKSIDE | 25 |
HOW AN OLD WOMAN TOOK CARE OF CANDIDE AND HOW HE RECOVERED WHAT HE LOVED | 27 |
CUNÉGONDÈS STORY | 31 |
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TWO TRAVELERS WITH TWO GIRLS TWO MONKEYS AND THE SAVAGES CALLED THE OREILLONS¹⁷ | 69 |
ARRIVAL OF CANDIDE AND HIS VALET IN THE LAND OF ELDORADO AND WHAT THEY SAW THERE | 75 |
WHAT THEY SAW IN THE LAND OF ELDORADO | 81 |
WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AT SURINAM AND HOW CANDIDE MADE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF MARTIN | 89 |
WHAT HAPPENED TO CANDIDE AND MARTIN AT SEA | 97 |
CANDIDE AND MARTIN APPROACH THE FRENCH COAST AND CONTINUE TO REASON WITH ONE ANOTHER | 101 |
WHAT HAPPENED TO CANDIDE AND MARTIN IN FRANCE | 105 |
CANDIDE AND MARTIN TRAVEL TO THE ENGLISH COAST WHAT THEY SEE THERE | 121 |
WHAT HAPPENED TO CUNÉGONDE CANDIDE THE GRAND INQUISITOR AND A JEW | 35 |
IN WHAT DISTRESS CANDIDE CUNÉGONDE AND THE OLD WOMAN ARRIVED AT CADIZ AND OF THEIR EMBARKATION | 39 |
THE OLD WOMANS STORY | 43 |
CONTINUATION OF THE OLD WOMANS MISFORTUNES | 47 |
HOW CANDIDE WAS OBLIGED TO PART COMPANY WITH THE BEAUTIFUL CUNÉGONDE AND THE OLD WOMAN | 55 |
HOW CANDIDE AND CACAMBO WERE RECEIVED BY THE JESUITS OF PARAGUAY | 59 |
HOW CANDIDE KILLED HIS BELOVED CUNÉGONDES BROTHER | 65 |
OF PAQUETTE AND BROTHER GIROFLÉE³⁶ | 125 |
VISIT TO LORD POCOCURANTE VENETIAN NOBLEMAN | 131 |
OF A SUPPER THAT CANDIDE AND MARTIN ATE WITH SIX FOREIGNERS AND WHO THEY WERE | 141 |
CANDIDES VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE | 147 |
WHAT HAPPENED TO CANDIDE CUNÉGONDE PANGLOSS MARTIN ETC | 153 |
HOW CANDIDE FOUND CUNÉGONDE AND THE OLD WOMAN AGAIN | 157 |
CONCLUSION | 159 |
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Page v - All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear,