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Complete Works of Voltaire 63C - L'Ingenu (French, Hardcover, Critical edition)
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Complete Works of Voltaire 63C - L'Ingenu (French, Hardcover, Critical edition)
Series: Complete Works of Voltaire, 63C
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First published in 1767, Voltaire's satirical tale "L'Ingenu" was
an immediate success. It was, Voltaire observed to his publisher,
even better than "Candide" (in that it was more realistic), and
readers - from Voltaire's era through to the present day, have
accounted it one of his most entertaining works. Imitating a
popular literary convention, the conte charts the introduction of
an outsider into French society - a Huron who has arrived in
Brittany. In the Huron's ensuing clashes with the church and the
political administration, the naive gaze of this 'uncivilized'
observer exposes absurdity and hypocrisy. Setting the story in the
late seventeenth century, Voltaire offers a criticism of life under
Louis XIV, as well as an allegory of eighteenth-century religious
intolerance. Composed during the period of Voltaire's campaign
against injustice of the sort perpetrated on Calas, Sirven and La
Barre, "L'Ingenu" may be seen as portraying the type of the
innocent individual persecuted by the state.
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