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Christian life --- Christian life --- Christian life --- Christian life. --- French language materials. --- French language materials.
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This fable confronts the hard question of evil. Candid, brought up by his mentor Pangloss in the philosophy of optimism, encounters across Europe and the Americas a deluge of bitter and funny calamities: expulsion, war, earthquakes, execution by burning, slavery, sickness... He ends by forging his own morality -cultivate your garden -, far from sterile metaphysics : Voltaire, adversary of the Bible, invents one of literatures most famous parables. Qu'est-ce que Candide ? Le conte le plus court, le plus comique, le plus connu des Lumieres. Condamné en plusieurs pays, lors de sa parution, pour indécence et effronterie, interdit de lecture par Diderot à sa fille, le voilà qui caracole aujourd'hui en tête des best-sellers de la littérature classique. On le porte au théâtre, on le met en musique, il attire les illustrateurs, inspire les cinéastes. Qu'y trouve-t-on ? Selon Voltaire lui-même, sans doute peu sincère, une "coionnerie". En fait, cette fable affronte la dure question du mal. Candide, élevé par son maître Pangloss dans la philosophie de l'optimisme, rencontre à travers l'Europe et l'Amerique un déluge de calamités amères et cocasses : expulsion, guerre, tremblement de terre, autodafé, esclavage, maladies... Il finira par se forger sa propre morale - cultiver notre jardin -, loin des métaphysiques stériles : Voltaire, adversaire de la Bible, venait d'inventer une des paraboles les plus célèbres de la litterature.
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The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. The volume was seized by the police, and Baudelaire and his published were put on trial for offence to public decency. Six offending poems were banned, ina conviction that was not overturned until 1949. This bold new translation, which restores the banned poems to their origin.
French language materials --- Bilingual --- Baudelaire, Charles, --- Translations into English.
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French literature --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Autobiographical fiction --- Prose literature --- French language materials. --- Autobiographical fiction.
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