Candide, Part II
| Author | perhaps Thorel de Campigneulles or Henri Joseph Du Laurens |
|---|---|
| Original title | Candide, ou l'Optimisme |
| Language | French |
| Genre | Satire, Picaresque novel |
Publication date | 1760 |
| Publication place | France |
Candide, or Optimism — Part II is an apocryphal picaresque novel, possibly written by Thorel de Campigneulles (1737-1809) or Henri Joseph Du Laurens (1719-1797), published in 1760.[1] The original fable was written by Voltaire and had been published a year earlier (1759). Voltaire had denounced writing the story, saying that "you must be out of your mind if you think I wrote this load of balls."[2] The success of the original story was "enormous and immediate,"[3] but due to the book's "politically subversive and (for the time) sexually explicit nature of the text," the police and the church were outraged; this resulted in the book being listed in the Index of Banned Books — and in 1762, it was publically burned.[4] The banning increased the popularity of the already sought-for book and many pirated versions started to appear.[5] The second part was published in 1760 and was attributed to both Campigneulles — "a now largely unknown writer of third-rate moralising novels;" and Laurens — who made a good habit of plagiarising Voltaire.[6] The story continued with Candide new adventures in the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Denmark.
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- Clark, Roger. Candide, Wordsworth Classics ISBN 9781853260636
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