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Complete Works of Voltaire 1B - Oeuvres de 1707-1722 (II) (French, Hardcover, Critical edition)
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Complete Works of Voltaire 1B - Oeuvres de 1707-1722 (II) (French, Hardcover, Critical edition)
Series: Complete Works of Voltaire, 1B
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Leaving school determined to be a poet, Voltaire's satires were
admired in aristocratic circles as well as the freethinking,
hedonistic "Societe du Temple". However, they soon earned him
notoriety, and, in 1717, eleven months imprisonment in the
Bastille. This volume brings together Voltaire's earliest poetic
works, from student experimentation in rhetoric to his first major
philosophical poem "Epitre a Uranie". Voltaire remained a writer
who shaped himself to his audience, and these works for a private
circle of intimates show a rare private persona of the poet, the
opposite of the official Voltairean voice on the stage of the
Comedie-Francaise. This edition includes the subversive poem
"Regnante puero" attributed to Voltaire, together with a detailed
overview of the political repurcussions. The one Voltairean
literary genre which is still widely read today, the conte
philosophique, emerges in two prose tales, which, however
light-heartedly, pose disturbing questions about social behaviour.
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