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Contos e Novelas

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Voltaire

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'Contos e novelas' e composto por textos curtos, como os antologicos 'Micromegas' e 'O mundo como esta', e alguns escritos maiores, como a famosa novela 'Candido ou o otimismo', um dos textos mais influentes do Iluminismo. Voltaire alia estilo limpido, claro e direto a tentativa de criar uma ficcao de tom filosofico em que os temas nunca sao corriqueiros ou banais. Pode-se dizer, inclusive, que foi com ele que a ficcao filosofica fortaleceu-se como uma forma autonoma de literatura, tendo evoluido ate chegar aos classicos do seculo XX, com Jean Paul Sartre. Outra marca inconfundivel dos textos de Voltaire e o humor, nao raro presente de forma intensa e decisiva. A novela 'Candido ou o Otimismo', para ficar no exemplo mais conhecido, utiliza forte ironia para criticar algumas correntes filosoficas da epoca, tomando como pano de fundo o terremoto que destruiu a cidade de Lisboa em 1755. O humor da prosa de Voltaire e tao marcante que alguns criticos o chamam, sem muito medo de errar, de 'satirista'. Dessa forma, o volume acaba atingindo um amplo publico - quem se interessa por textos agradaveis, engracados e muito bem escritos, tem em Voltaire uma boa oportunidade de leitura. Ja aqueles que procuram uma literatura profundamente filosofica tera em maos um alentado livro de estudo. Por fim, o admirador das letras francesas podera encontrar nesta obra um dos maiores nomes daquele pais num volume traduzido por um grande escritor, Mario Quintana, enriquecido por estudos de folego e complementado por alentada cronologia.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his nom de plume Voltaire, he was famous for his wit, and his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—and of slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.

Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets.Voltaire was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. His best-known work and magnum opus, Candide, is a novella which comments on, criticizes, and ridicules many events, thinkers, and philosophies of his time.

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