Вольтер - Философские повести - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Genre: foreign classics

Of Voltaire’s vast artistic heritage, the most famous are his “Philosophical Tales,” primarily “Zadig, or Fate” (1747), “Candide, or Optimism” (1759), and “The Simple-Minded” (1767). The writer brilliantly combined the traditional literary genre, which reveals the cardinal questions of existence, various philosophical doctrines developed in their time by Montesquieu and J. Swift, with a parody of tearful novels about the adventures of unhappy lovers. As A. Pushkin wrote, Voltaire flooded Paris with works in which “philosophy spoke in a generally understandable and humorous language.”

The modern reader is left to appreciate Voltaire’s mocking and impetuous style, to check the writer’s famous thesis: “Everything is for the best in this best of possible worlds.”