Candide
by Voltaire
1759/ 95 pages –
rating 9
Written in 1759 (the same year as Tristram Shandy) this Enlightenment inspired satire is basically a statement in opposition to “”Therefore this is the best of all possible worlds,” a statement supposedly made by the German philosopher Gottfried Leibnitz (1646 – 1716) >>>>MORE >>>>
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The Plague by Albert Camus. It was one of first books in French which I read first.
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I’ve read it but not in French! Americans are so monolingual – I do speak a bit of Spanish.
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