num_pages: 128
description: Pastiche, imitation but also a continuation of Voltaire’s most celebrated tale, Candide, seconde partie, picks up many of the original’s themes.  Leibniz, Descartes and Newton are gently mocked; Pascal is accused of trying to make us hate humankind.  If it cannot begin to compare with Voltaire’s masterpiece, the tale is nonetheless an amusing and instructive imitation.
language: English
title: Candide: ou l'optimisme, seconde partie (1760)
titlecomplete: Candide: ou l'optimisme, seconde partie (1760) (Exeter Textes Litteraires)
publisher: University of Exeter Press