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About the product The heroes of Voltaire’s stories appear «from the outside», and their freshness of perception especially vividly emphasizes the unattractiveness of reality. In this reality, the priests take up arms against Zadig because he discourages the widows from burning themselves on the corpses of their husbands. The simple-minded person does not understand why marriage with a loved one requires the consent of the Pope who lives in another country and speaks a foreign language, and why the actions of a religious people are so different from what is written in the Bible. The giant Micromegas is asked not to bother destroying the Earth, since people themselves cope with it, and the optimist Candide faces cruelty and violence as the natural state of the world. Voltaire was not a revolutionary, but his mind and talent forced him to unmistakably find the «pain points» of society. His stories, created in the second half of the 18th century, are still read in many ways as if they were written yesterday. …
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