It’s more fun to read
3 stars
It’s wild but lifeless. Maybe it’s just the translation I read.
German language
Published Jan. 4, 1913 by In Insel-Verlag zu Leipzig.
3 stars
(1 review)
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.