"Candide, seconde partie" is an amusing, instructive and sometimes naughty imitation of Voltaire's masterpiece. A continuation of Candide's pilgrimage through a strange and cruel world, the story is a satire in the manner of Voltaire, and picks up many of the original tale's characters as well as its pet themes. To some extent, the book tells us a great deal about the spirit in which contemporary readers understood Voltaire's wit and satire. At the same time, it allows today's reader to take another look at Candide itself. It appeared bound with Voltaire's original in 1760. It went through many French editions in the 1760s and 1770s and was translated into English as soon as it appeared. Many thoughtful and cultured readers opined at the time that the work was by Voltaire himself. It has not been published in French since 1877 although it is widely available in an English-language translation. This text should interest specialists and could serve as a primary text in graduate level courses on 18th-century French literature and, more specifically, Voltaire himself, as well as courses dealing with the problem of authorship and imitation.

伏爾泰

一六九四 ～ 一七七八

法國思想傢、文學傢、哲學傢，十八世紀法國資産階級啓濛運動的泰鬥和靈魂。主要作品有哲理小說《老實人》《天真漢》《查第格》，曆史著作《查理十二史》《風俗論》，哲學著作《哲學詞典》《哲學書簡》等。

傅雷

一九〇八 ～ 一九六六

著名文學翻譯傢、文藝評論傢。從二十世紀三十年代起緻力於法國文學的翻譯介紹工作，畢生翻譯作品三十餘部，譯文以傳神為特色，更兼行文流暢，用字豐富，工於色彩變化。