When one is recommended a book by a 300 year old wig-wearing, French intellectual chances are they will not be expecting a fast-paced and maniacally violent, black comedy adventure. Candide is not having much luck in life, for wherever he goes, over 100 pages of floggings, flayings, humiliations and volcanic eruptions seems to follow. A philosophic in-joke on the nature of fate and optimism hidden beneath as a torrent of macabre, swashbuckling slap-stick.
160 Pages
Voltaire, Cuffe, T. and Wood, M. (2005). Candide, or Optimism. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books.
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