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Voltaire's Candide: Literature Is The Question Minus The Answer

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Critic Roland Barthes once said, “Literature is the question minus the answer.” Great works of literature, such as a satire, pose questions with equivocal answers; allowing the audience to perceive the author’s message differently. French enlightenment writer, Voltaire, was a satirical polemicist who frequently used his works and wit to criticize French society of his day. Through his novella Candide, Voltaire poses many questions about the societal issues that are looked over and in which he feels are never addressed properly. Through his satire Candide, Voltaire makes conspicuous attacks on the philosopher Leibniz’s optimistic philosophy, that we live in the best of all possible worlds. During mid 18th century France, people lived with this
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