Candy is a 1958 novel written by Maxwell Kenton, the pseudonym of Terry Southern, and Mason Hoffenberg, who wrote it in collaboration for the "dirty book" publisher Olympia Press, which published the
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Candide
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Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled
Candy (Southern and Hoffenberg novel)
…States, everybody was taking it seriously. Do you remember what kind of shit people were saying? One guy wrote a review about how Candy was a satire on Candide. So right away I went back and reread Voltaire to see if he was right. That's what happens to you. It's as if you vomit in the gutter and everybody…
The title-page of the 1759 edition published by Cramer in Geneva, which reads, "Candide, or Optimism, translated from the German of Dr. Ralph."
This 1755 copper engraving shows the ruins of Lisbon in flames and a tsunami overwhelming the ships in the harbour.
Engraving of Voltaire published as the frontispiece to an 1843 edition of his Dictionnaire philosophique
1803 illustration of the two monkeys chasing their lovers. Candide shoots the monkeys, thinking they are attacking the women.