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Zadig

Author
Voltaire
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
96 pages
ISBN
9781911495390
Published
11 July 2016
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Voltaire
  • enlightenment
  • history
  • philosophy
  • humour
  • wit
  • poetry
  • epic
  • romantic
  • philosophical

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Description

Zadig, a good-hearted, handsome young man from Babylonia, is in love with Sémire and they are to marry. Sémire, however, has another suitor: Orcan wants her for himself. Zadig tries to defend his love from Orcan's threat, but his eye is injured in the process. Sémire abhors this injury, causing her to depart with his enemy. Shortly after, Zadig makes a full recovery and falls into the arms of another woman, Azora, with whom he is married, but who promptly betrays him.

Author

Voltaire (1694–1778) made French prose feel like a blade you could pocket. Candide moves too fast for consolation: earthquake, war, and a garden that is not a philosophy so much as a last useful sentence. The letters, the tales, the long public quarrel with superstition — they share one climate. Ridicule here is not decoration. It is how a mind stays free in a crowded century.

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