Questioning a particular tradition of reading, Carol Sherman writes a series of metacritical essays that revise many of our assumptions about Voltaire's stories, substantiate others, and attempt to account for the phenomenon of interpretation for the paradoxical case of fictions that proffer truths. Micromegas, Zadig, Candide, and L'Ingene constantly guide the interpreter to a single reading; nonetheless, these tales deconstruct their premises at the hands of readers who are conscious of their own status as text.
| ISBN: | 9780807892275 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 1985 |
| Author: | Carol Sherman |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 284 pages |
| Series: | North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Literary companions, book reviews and guides Philosophy Literary studies: general |