Candide ou L’optimisme

About the Story

Candide begins life convinced that he lives in the best of all possible worlds, but war, disaster, and exploitation quickly challenge that belief. His travels take him across continents in a fast-moving sequence of absurd and often brutal events.

Voltaire uses wit and exaggeration to challenge complacency, dogma, and easy optimism. Candide is both a comic adventure and a sharp Enlightenment satire.