{"product_id":"voltaires-workshop","title":"Voltaire's Workshop: The Sources of \"Candide\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e is the best-known, most singular expression of Voltaire's thought, standing out not only within the author's tremendous output but also within the thousand-year tradition of French literature. It is studied in every major language and its phrases are a part of everyday speech, in English and in French. Yet Voltaire didn't keep any records about how and when he composed \u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e or any hints to its underlying meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond popular acclaim, \u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e's status is cemented by the work of critics concerned with the circumstances of its composition. Their research has led to a wealth of secondary literature but surprisingly few conclusions. In \u003ci\u003eVoltaire's Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e Edward Langille argues that the 1750 French translation of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones by Pierre-Antoine de La Place was Candide's most important source. Langille uncovers a range of similarities - of vocabulary and phrasing, overarching narrative structures, and composition of characters - and pertinent commentary in other works by Voltaire. Through the La Place translation, he argues, Fielding furnished Voltaire with a plot, a framework, and a set of characters that he could rewrite into a text that struck contemporary readers as entirely original.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVoltaire's Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e addresses one of literature's greatest mysteries, raising larger questions about how Voltaire worked and wrote fiction and, more broadly, about textual filiations in the eighteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture rigide","offer_id":46227430015186,"sku":"9780228024705","price":141.3,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Livre numérique Kobo","offer_id":46227430047954,"sku":"46d42425-cc92-35f1-ad1d-ce19baafbd25","price":87.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_f73cb3a2-1a06-4924-9054-6e49dd881cee.jpg?v=1762832483","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/voltaires-workshop","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}