[오늘의 한문장] 캉디드 Candide

The old servants of the family suspected him to have been the son of the Baron‘s sister, by a good, honest gentleman of the neighborhood, whom that young lady would never marry because he had been able to prove only seventy-one quarterings, the rest of his genealogical tree having been lost through the injuries of time.
- P9

[오늘의 한문장] 캉디드 Candide

His countenance was a true pictures of the soul. He combined a true judgement with simplicity of spirit, which of the reason, I apprehend, of his being called Candide.
- P9

[오늘의 한문장] 캉디드 Candide

In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners.
- P9

[오늘의 한문장] 캉디드 Candide

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HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A MAGNIFICENT CASTLE, AND HOW HE WAS EXPELLED THENCE.
- P9

[오늘의 한문장] 캉디드 Candide

■ 작품 소개

캉디드는 프랑스의 작가 볼테르가 1759년에 쓴 철학적 풍자소설입니다. 볼테르는 `순박한` 캉디드를 통해 당시의 정치, 철학, 종교 등을 신랄하게 풍자하고 있습니다. 삶에 회의를 느낄 수밖에 없는 역경을 겪으면서도 낙천주의자 캉디드가 추구했던 행복은 많은 논점을 던지고 있습니다.
- P3