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April 26,2025
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Once again, Voltaire gives me the impression that he is not attracted to the novel or the story, which he contemptuously calls " trifles ".
" How can you prefer stories that have no meaning and mean nothing ? That's why we like it ".
He has the prejudice of the noble gender. The tragedy, the verse discourse, the philosophical pamphlet, visibly preoccupies him.

The story is divided into two moments, with the Eldorado episode in the center - the image of an inaccessible ideal. The evolution of the protagonist makes " Candide" a novel of éducation and apprenticeship : only after he has removed the solutions proposed by the optimistic philosopher Pangloss, and the pessimistic philosopher Martin - can Candid answer the questions that have haunted him, throughout his journey.
Adventures shape his personality, experiences make him think. Dreams help him to clarify his beliefs.

" Candid" - can be considered the parodic epic of decay and misery, but also of gallant aristocratic fairy tales and novels.
Voltaire also includes a lot of biographical substance, in this story. The Enlightenment, with its double aspect - negative and constructive - is also present. This perhaps explains the anecdote in which Lord Chesterfield would have answered his son, in this way, who asked him if he should buy the Diderot's Encyclopedia - the famous account of XVlll- century thought :
" - You'II buy it, my son, and sit on it, to read " Candide ". "
April 26,2025
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کاندید,شاهکار ولتر..از آن دسته آثار که زمان برایشان بی معنی ست..پاسخی محکم برای آنان که زندگی نکرده می اندیشند..260سال گذشته اما گذر زمان از گزندگی طنز ولتر نکاسته,کاندید همچنان روز به روز حقیقت جهان را به ما می نماید..شاهکاری که خط به خطش پوچی و پوشالی بودن ظواهر و افکار را اشکار میسازد و به طینت اصلی انسان می پردازد..کاندید ماجرای فردی نابیناست که در نهایت بینا می شود و جهان واقعی را می شناسد,برای آنچه که واقعا هست...واقعیت با تکان دهنده ترین شکل ممکن بر او می تازد,چشمانی که تا کنون جز زندگی محدودی ندیده ناگهان با هنگامه وحشتناک جهان انسان ها رو به رو می شود...کاندید اما نمی شکند و نقش واقعی و زندگی حقیقی خود را در این جهان برمیگزیند, با شهامتی بی مانند..شهامتی که عدم ان باعث شده بسیاری از ما در درون قصر های شیشه ای امن خود باقی بمانیم..و هر گاه خطری دیوار های افکارمان ما را تهدید کرد روی برگردانیم و نا دیده ش بگیریم..در حالیکه در ذهنمان مان جملاتی مانند "اینگونه بهتر است"یا"به من ارتباطی ندارد" را چون ذکری افیون کننده تکرار می کنیم..
ولتر نیز البته راه حلی که ارائه می دهد همچون چخوف کار است..کار که انسان را از سه بلای بزرگ افسردگی هوس و نیاز می رهاند..پایان ماجرای کاندید و دوستانش در قسطنطیه ست..فرار ولتر از مسیحیت و فساد کشیشانش البته ��مان ماجرای دوری از زشتی ای که می شناسیم به سمت زشتی های ناشناخته ست..شاید اگر عمر ولتر دراز تر بود و داستانش ادامه می یافت از قسطنطنیه نیز می گریختند..به الدرادو,آرمان شهر ولتر باز می گشتند..در میافتند که شاید ردا ها در قسطنطنیه متفاوت باشد,اما باطن و طینت یکسان است..
Listening to :"King Crimson-In the court of the Crimson king"
April 26,2025
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- Bonjour, M. Candide! Bienvenue au site Goodreads! Qu'en pensez-vous?

- It's OK, we can speak English. Pour encourager les autres, as one might say.

- Eh... super! I mean, good! So, what do you make of twenty-first century Britain?

- Vraiment sympathique! I am reading of your little scandale with the expenses of the Houses of Parliament. It is a great moment for la démocratie. Now there will be des élections, the people will be able to choose better representatives, we will see that the country has become stronger as a result...

- So really it was a good thing?

- Oh, of course, all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds!

- What? Including, I don't know, the Iraq War?

- Absoluement! It is similar. If M. Bush had not started this very unpopular war, then the American voters would never have decided to choose M. Obama, who you can see is the best possible président you could have at this moment très difficile de l'histoire...

- But I think they chose him, more than anything else, because of the economic meltdown?

- Bien sûr, the war on its own would not have been enough, la crise économique also was necessary. All is for the best!

- M. Candide, you think that global warming and the impending collapse of the world's climate is also for the best?

- Mais, ça se voit! Because of the global warming, la science et la technologie will be forced to make new avances, people in all countries will start to work together, and we will enter a new golden age. Soon it will be as in El Dorado, that I visited once in l'Amerique du Sud...

- Um. So I suppose that the spread of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, genocide in Rwanda and Rush Limbaugh are also good things when you look at them from the right angle?

- Evidement! First, le SIDA. By making drug companies and researchers focus on...

- No, wait. Forget AIDS. What about Stephenie Meyer? Is she a good thing too?

- Eh... oui... non... this book, Fascination... how do you say, "Twilight"... alors. If only my dear Doctor Pangloss was here, he could explain to you...
April 26,2025
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un conte philosophique écrit par voltaire où il fait une critique de la société à l'époque où il vivait à travers candide qui voyage dans le monde entier .
ici le grand philosophe français évoque des sujets tels que : la religion , la liberté , l'esclavage , le fanatisme , le bonheur , l'amour et beaucoup d'autres thèmes que je ne peux pas tous cités .
je l'ai vraiment adoré , ça ma fait rire a plusieurs reprises .
April 26,2025
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Not bought this book last time we visited Foyles; since it was lying around, I couldn't resist the temptation to read it again. You can read Candide any number of times. A particularly fine passage which I had forgotten, from the Eldorado sequence:
Cacambo expliquait les bons mots du roi à Candide, et quoique traduits, ils paraissaient toujours des bons mots. De tout ce qui étonnait Candide, ce n'était pas ce qui l'étonna le moins.

Cacambo explained the king's witty remarks to Candide, and, although they had been translated, they were still witty. Of all the things that astonished Candide, this was not the one that astonished him least.
April 26,2025
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جالب الان داشتم فکر می کردم بعد خواندن رمان" خرمگس" که شخصیت مبارزی داشت "ولتر"نیز به نوعی فردی مبارز جهت رسیدن به اهدافش می باشد. او از سردمداران انقلاب فرانسه بود و بر خلاف کلیسا حرف می زد و همین امر باعث ایجاد دردسرهایی برایش شد. "کاندید" به معنی فرد ساده دل است.
April 26,2025
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کتاب بیستم
۱۲-۱۶ مرداد ۴۰۲

من با این کتاب واقعا عشق کردم
April 26,2025
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Que agradável surpresa! Este é um "livrinho" muito engraçado que se lê muito rapidamente. Uma sátira muito simples e directa, feita através de uma história tão imaginativa que chega a ser mirabolante. São aqui tratados os temas do optimismo e pessimismo, do bem e do mal, do amor e do ódio, enfim...de extremos.

A acção da história é também ela extremada, sem meios termos. A ingenuidade, o optimismo, o amor e a bondade do personagem principal são impiedosamente atacados por tudo o que de pior existe no mundo, em todos os flancos possíveis.

Capítulo a capítulo, esses valores são testados e retestados. Contudo, comicamente ou melhor, sarcasticamente, Cândido continua a "resistir". O optimismo é central na sua visão da vida e do mundo. Não deixa no entanto, de se interrogar continuamente sobre esta máxima de "tudo no mundo vai pelo melhor" (de Liebniz, personificado aqui no mestre Pangloss).
Muito bom este livro, que de uma forma tão simples, nos leva a reflectir sobre temas tão complexos.

Post completo em: http://linkedbooks.blogspot.com/2012/...
April 26,2025
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Leibniz'in "Olası dünyaların en iyisi" ifadesine, "böyle düşünüyorsun öyle mi? O halde bunu bir oku" dercesine yazılmış bir eleştiri mahiyetinde olan kitabın insanı dehşete düşüren bir havası var. İyimserliğin yüzüne bir tokat gibi inen kitapta masalsı bir anlatımın içerisine yerleşmiş korku verici olaylar bir yandan okurun yüzünde ekşi bir ifade bırakırken bir yandan da kitaba devam etme dürtüsü uyandırıyor okurda.
Elinizden bırakamıyorsunuz.
April 26,2025
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Intrigued after reading Fabian’s review; I was not disappointed.
April 26,2025
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Para Um Mundo Melhor


Pontualmente, cada Acontecimento é a resultante dum conjunto de premissas que causaram a inevitabilidade do seu Acontecer.
Tudo está bem como está pois nada poderia estar onde não está.
Donde se conclui que Tudo está o Melhor Possível.

Note-se que, o que está aqui em causa não é a Imutabilidade do Todo.
Esta Filosofia apenas preconiza que qualquer alteração ao nível do que acontece, pressupõe uma investigação prévia da conjuntura responsável pelo Acontecimento.
Só a criação dum conjunto de novas premissas poderá ocasionar um Novo Resultado.

Ao demonstrar que só a Aceitação do Estado de Coisas Existente é Verosímil, Voltaire está a incitar-nos não à Passividade mas sim à Mudança.

O Todo Existente, carece de facto, duma Urgente Intervenção!
"Está visto que os homens corromperam um pouco a natureza, pois não nasceram lobos e tornaram-se lobos. Deus não lhes deu nem canhões nem baionetas e eles fabricaram-nos para se aniquilarem"

Embora forçados a aceitar o que está a acontecer, cabe-nos impedir que o devir se manifeste como uma eterna repetição do mesmo.

Na sua última frase, Cândido aponta-nos o Caminho:
"É preciso Cultivar o Nosso Jardim".
Com outras e melhores sementes, acrescento eu!
Melhores Causas... melhores Efeitos!...
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