Item type | Location | Call number | Copy | Status | Notes | Date due |
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Books | Βιβλιοθήκη Ανθός | 843 VOL (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | 1976 |
842 SARΚεκλεισμένων των θυρών | 843 BREΟ τρελός έρως | 843 VOLLe Monde comme il va - Zadig | 843 VOLCandide | 852 PIRΝα ντύσουμε τους γυμνούς | 852 PIRΝα ντύσουμε του γυμνούς |
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It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters, not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging, and exile, Voltaire knew personally what suffering entailed. In Candide he whisks his young hero and friends through a ludicrous variety of tortures, tragedies, and a reversal of fortune, in the company of Pangloss, a "metaphysico-theologo-comolo-nigologist" of unflinching optimism. The result is one of the glories of eighteenth-century satire.
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