candide

I think you mean Pangloss, who was a parody of Leibniz in Candide who was written by Voltaire.

Let's hope things go for the best this time in Ukraine, as Candide would say.

All great books but missing some important items: - Candide - A Peoples History...

Vous devez avoir, dit Candide au Turc, une vaste et magnifique terre?

I suggest reading Candide by Voltaire, first published 266 years as a critique to the philosophy you are currently espousing.

Then there's the Molière character I can't remember from Candide who says the nose evolved so we can rest our eyeglasses.

You have me thinking of Candide as an answer to Quixote.

Voltaire in Candide mocked this with a debate, if I recall on sheep color.

I'm just finishing Candide on my iPhone right now.

I wonder if Candide is the prototype of this.

Had to study this at school a while back, it was one of the first books (after Candide by Voltaire) that I found interesting at the time, and still have in my little library.

Also overall I thought anti-religious satire in fiction is fairly common (I remember reading Candide in high school, and Pullman around the same time or a little earlier) and far from what makes Chiang special.

For those who don't know French (approximate): Candide asked the Turk, "Do you have a vast and magnificent estate?" "I only have twenty acres," the Turk replied.

"I cultivate them with my children; The work wards off three great evils: boredom, vice, and want." - From Voltaire's "Candide" - one of the more fun (and short!) 'Great Books'.

Candide and White Noise I accidentally read prior to the class, not knowing they were curriculum books.

I was surprised that no bilingual edition of Candide, on of the most known works of French litterature, isn't available.

I suppose most tragedy is relative, and I'm not trying to delve into Candide-style one-upping.