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The introduction highlights how the story’s laughter stays fresh from the eighteenth century onward, while also noting how a modern retelling might emphasize sensory detail and social complexity. 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PUBLISHERS NEW YORK  \nCopyright, 1918, by BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC.  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nINTRODUCTION  \nEver since 1759, when Voltaire wrote \"Candide\" in ridicule of the notion that this is the best of all possible worlds, this world has been a gayer place for readers. Voltaire wrote it in three days, and five or six generations have found that its laughter does not grow old.  \n\"Candide\" has not aged. Yet how different the book would have looked if Voltaire had written it a hundred and fifty years later than 1759. It would have been, among other things, a book of sights and sounds. A modern writer would have tried to catch and fix in words some of those Atlantic changes which broke the Atlantic monotony of that voyage from Cadiz to Buenos Ayres. When Martin and Candide were sailing the length of the Mediterranean we should have had a contrast between naked scarped Balearic cliffs and headlands of Calabria in their mists. We should have had quarter distances, far horizons, the altering silhouettes of an Ionian island. Colored birds would have filled Paraguay with their silver or acid cries.  \nDr. Pangloss, to prove the existence of design in the universe, says that noses were made to carry spectacles, and so we have spectacles. A modern satirist would not try to paint with Voltaire's quick brush the doctrine that he wanted to expose. And he would choose a more complicated doctrine than Dr. Pangloss's optimism, would study it more closely, feel his destructive way about it with a more learned and caressing malice. His attack, stealthier, more flexible and more patient than Voltaire's, would call upon us, especially when his learning got a little out of control, to be more than patient. Now and then he would bore us. \"Candide\" never bored anybody except William Wordsworth.  \nVoltaire's men and women point his case against optimism by starting high and falling low. A modern could not go about it after this fashion. He would not plunge his people into an unfamiliar misery. He would just keep them in the misery they were born to.  \nBut such an account of Voltaire's procedure is as misleading as the plaster cast of a dance. Look at his procedure again. Mademoiselle Cunégonde, the  \nillustrious Westphalian, sprung from a family that could prove seventy-one quarterings, descends and descends until we find her earning her keep by washing dishes in the Propontis. The aged faithful attendant, victim of a hundred acts of rape by negro pirates, remembers that she is the daughter of a pope, and that in honor of her approaching marriage with a Prince of Massa-Carrara all Italy wrote sonnets of which not one was passable. We do not need to know French literature before Voltaire in order to feel, although the lurking parody may escape us, that he is poking fun at us and at himself. His laughter at his own methods grows more unmistakable at the last, when he caricatures them by casually assembling six fallen monarchs in an inn at Venice.  \nA modern assailant of optimism would arm himself with social pity. Thereis no social pity in \"Candide.\" Voltaire, whose light touch on familiar institutions opens them and reveals their absurdity, likes to remind us that the slaughter and pillage and murder which Candide witnessed among the Bulgarians was perfectly regular, having been conducted according to the laws and usages of war. Had Voltaire lived to-day he would have done to poverty what he did to war. Pitying the poor, he would have shown us poverty as a ridiculous anachronism, and both the ridicule and the pity would have expressed his indignation.  \nAlmost any modern, essaying a philosophic tale, would make it long.\"Candide\" is only a \"Hamlet\" and a half long. It would hardly have been shorter if Voltaire had spent three months on it, instead of those three days. A conciseness to be matched in English by nobody except Pope, who can say a plagiarizing enemy \"s","cbCaiaIiCz8ZQjwy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaIiCz8ZQjwy","pdf",589499,128,"English","# Introduction\n## Satire of optimistic philosophy\n## Narrative procedure and character descent\n## Modern perspective and philosophical critique","[{\"question\":\"Why is Candide considered timeless according to the introduction?\",\"answer\":\"The introduction notes that even after centuries, the book’s laughter has not grown old, and Voltaire wrote it with a wit that remains effective.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Candide challenge the idea of design or optimism in the universe?\",\"answer\":\"It contrasts optimistic doctrines, such as Pangloss’s claims, with scenes where suffering and violence occur as if they were ordinary or “regular,” exposing the doctrine’s absurdity.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the introduction say about Voltaire’s method compared with a modern writer?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that a modern writer would likely alter focus toward sensory realism and more complex doctrine, while Voltaire’s quick, parenthetical wit and concise form deliver a sharper attack.\"}]","Candide - Voltaire | PDF",197]