![]() ![]() Instead, Candide goes to war, suffers through natural disasters, gets on a ship bound for Latin America, gets in a shipwreck, goes to the mythical city of El Dorado, and kills a disproportionate number of religious figures. Instead, it's an adventure story that follows the (totally insane) antics of Candide, a wide-eyed, innocent boy who's totally besotted by a super-hot girl.īut this isn't your standard love story. ![]() But this isn't a dull treatise or an angry screed. Nothing is safe from the scathing commentary Voltaire delivers in this novel-not power, wealth, love, philosophy, religion, education, or, most significantly, optimism. You just ended up with someone kind of like Voltaire, the literary force of nature behind Candide. Finally, add the kind of world-building that rockets books to the top of the bestseller list-like our man George R.R. Now, roll in the acerbic observations of your favorite public intellectual-say, Ta-Nehisi Coates. Imagine your favorite white-hot wit that lampoons everything in their path-say, Amy Schumer. ![]()
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