Safdil-Hasan Ali Yücel Classics

Voltaire (1694-1778): François-Marie Arouet, one of the most important writers of French literature, was known by the pseudonym Voltaire he used in his works. The author, who stands out with his critical intelligence and satirical mastery, has produced works in almost all literary genres, and has also been influential in this field with his Dictionary of Philosophy, in which he directed his arrows at the political institutions and popular thought styles of his period. His works, which influenced the development of European civilization on the eve of the French Revolution, are among the masterpieces of the idea of civil rights and freedom against oppression and bigotry in our age. Voltaire, who published his novel Puredil in 1767, three years after the Jesuit order was declared illegal in France, attributed the story of the work to the manuscripts of the theologian Pasquier Quesnel, the leading name of Jansenism. In order to easily criticize the Jesuits, the author cited a Jansenist priest as a source in his fiction, and this made the story, which includes mild-mannered women, clergy and a naive Huron Indian, even more ridiculous by linking it to the notes of a strictly moralistic Jansenist.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 116

Size: 12.5 x 20.5

First Print Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish