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Complete Works of Voltaire 30B - Oeuvres de 1746-1748 (II) (French, Hardcover, Critical edition)
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Complete Works of Voltaire 30B - Oeuvres de 1746-1748 (II) (French, Hardcover, Critical edition)
Series: Complete Works of Voltaire, 30B
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Written substantially in the late 1740s and published between 1747
and 1749, the three contes which are collected in this volume are
among the best known of Voltaire's works. They were composed at a
time when Voltaire had abandoned the tranquillity of Cirey for the
tumult of Paris and Versailles, and was enjoying new recognition
from members of the court and the learned societies. The three
contes in the present volume, "Zadig", "Memnon" and "Le Monde comme
il va", mark a new departure for Voltaire. They are the first of
his fictional writings to be composed especially for the general
reading public. Secure in his official prestige by the late 1740s,
Voltaire felt free to publish these fictional experiments which
adapt the popular mode of oriental fiction, parodying and
pastiching the works of other writers - while at the same time
offering serious criticisms of French society and his reflections
on the nature of human happiness and the problem of evil.
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