Candide, Part II
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| Author | attributed to Thorel de Campigneulles or Henri Joseph Du Laurens (uncertain) |
|---|---|
| Original title | Candide, ou l'Optimisme, Seconde partie |
| Language | French |
| Genre | Satire, Picaresque novel |
| Publication date | 1760 |
| Publication place | France |
Candide, or Optimism — Part II is an apocryphal picaresque novel. It was possibly written by Thorel de Campigneulles (1737–1809) or Henri Joseph Du Laurens (1719–1797) and published in 1760. The publisher presented it as a sequel to Candide.
The original work was written by Voltaire and had been published a year earlier (1759). However, it was popular enough that unauthorized publishers and printers still sold it on the black market. This "second part" was attributed to both Campigneulles,a forgotten writer of poor moralising novels,[attribution needed] and Laurens, who is suspected of having habitually plagiarised Voltaire. The story continued with Candide new adventures in the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Denmark.
A scholarly French edition with introduction and notes was produced in 2003 by Edward Langille. In 2007. he also edited Candide en Dannemarc ("Candide in Denmark"), which takes up the story following Candide, Part II.
References
- ↑ "Thorel de Campigneulles | Presse18". dictionnaire-journalistes.gazettes18e.fr. Retrieved 2025-09-23.
- ↑ Candide, VIII, IX
- ↑ "Review Essays/Critiques des livres". Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 21 (4): 631–665. July 2009. doi:10.3138/ecf.21.4.631. ISSN 0840-6286.
- ↑ Candide, VIII
- ↑ Astbury, Kate (April 2005). "Candide, ou l'optimisme, seconde partie (1760) / Jean-François Marmontel: un intellectuel exemplaire au siècle des Lumières". Modern Language Review. 100 (2). Modern Humanities Research Association: 503. doi:10.1353/mlr.2005.a826981. EBSCO Accession Number 16763209.
- ↑ Abramovici, Jean-Christophe (2010-07-30). "Candide en Dannemarc ou l'optimisme des honnêtes gens [1767], éd. Édouard Langille, Durham University, Durham Modern Languages Series, 2007, 192 p. ISBN 978-0-907310-63-1". Dix-huitième siècle (in French). 42 (1): III. doi:10.3917/dhs.042.0721a03. ISSN 0070-6760.
Sources
- Clark, Roger. Candide, Wordsworth Classics ISBN 978-1-85326-063-6
- Langille, Edouard (ed). Candide, seconde partie [1760]. Great Britain: University of Exeter Press, 2003.
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