Candide, Part II

Candide, Part II

infobox Book |
name = Candide, or Optimism
title_orig = Candide, ou l'Optimisme
translator =


image_caption =
author = perhaps Thorel de Campigneulles or Henri Joseph Du Laurens
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = France
language = French
series =
genre = Satire, Picaresque novel
publisher =
release_date = 1760

Candide, or Optimism — Part II is an apocryphal picaresque novel, possibly written by Thorel de Campigneulles (1737-1809) or Henri Joseph Du Laurens (1719-1797), published in 1760.Candide, VIII, IX] The prequel, "Candide", was written by Voltaire and had been published a year earlier (1759). This work was banned and became popular enough that pirated versions started to appear.Candide, VIII] The second part was attributed to both Campigneulles—"a now largely unknown writer of third-rate moralising novels;" and Laurens—who is suspected of having habitually plagiarised Voltaire.Candide, VIII, IX] The story continued with Candide new adventures in the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Denmark. [cite journal
title = Candide, ou l'optimisme, seconde partie (1760) / Jean-François Marmontel: un intellectuel exemplaire au siècle des Lumières
last = Astbury
first = Kate
journal = Modern Language Review
date = April 2005
volume = 100
number = 2
pages = 503
publisher = Modern Humanities Research Association
id = EBSCO Accession Number 16763209]

ee also

*"Candide"

Footnotes

References

* Clark, Roger. Candide, Wordsworth Classics ISBN 9781853260636


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