Candide, or Optimism
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Ben Lloyd Hughes
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Ben Lloyd-Hughes, best known for Divergent, Me Before You and The Inbetweeners. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Wood.
Brought up in the household of a powerful baron, Candide is an open-minded young man whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them - earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, murder - sorely testing the young hero's optimism.
Public Domain (P)2021 Penguin Audio
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
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- 13/07/2022
Very Good
This was a wonderful performance by Ben Lloyd Hughes which left me at times dazzled and at others laughing. I thoroughly enjoyed it as the narrator obviously did too. It clearly ranks as one of the best audiobooks along with the ones by Miriam Margolyes and Rory Kinnear. The translation is very good as well as the introduction by Michael Wood. I would suggest that Penguin books also upload the notes by Theo Cuffe which show the richness of the text and the great care with which it was written.
This is a classic work written in the 1750s that bears the imprint of its author, François Marie Arouet (who changed his name likely after being beaten – a été roué, à rouer (which sounds like Arouet) – to ‘Voltaire’) who by the time of its stealthy initial publication was already an accomplished playwright. It discusses (sometimes so swiftly but always pertinently) so many topics so skilfully and with great wit including religions, intolerance, the Jesuits, some papal bulls, actors in Voltaire’s plays, colonialism, slavery, misery, the Western literary canon, war, military expediency, philosophy, optimism, suicide, monarchs, regicides and a quantity of other things that will take some time to sink in.
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