Micromegas and Other Short Fictions

By: FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE

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Paperback | 12 July 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Travelling through strange environments, Voltaire's protagonists are educated, often by surprise, into the complexities and contradictions of their world. Arriving on Earth from the Star Sirius, the gigantic explorer Micromegas discovers a diminutive people with an inflated idea of their own importance in the universe. Babouc in 'The World as It Is' learns that humanity is equally capable of barbarism and remarkable altruism. Other characters in this diverting collection include a little-known god of infidelity, a pretentious graduate who invites a savage to dinner and an Indian fakir who puts up with a bed of nails to gain the adoration of his female disciples.

Whether he is exploring the paradoxes of grief, demanding better education for women, or mocking greedy clerics and the Christian ideal of chastity, Voltair is always wonderfully provocative. Above all, he shows that in an uncertain, violent world pity and a desire for justice are our only decent responses.

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Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short Stories Short Stories Classic Fiction Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800 Non-Fiction Prose Literary Essays

Introduction
Chronology of Voltaire's Life and Times
Further Reading
Note on the Texts
Translator's Note
Cuckoldage	p. 3
The One-eyed Porter	p. 5
Cosi-Sancta	p. 11
Micromegas	p. 17
The World As It Is	p. 36
Memnon	p. 52
Letter from a Turk	p. 57
Plato's Dream	p. 60
The History of the Travels of Scarmentado	p. 63
The Consoler and the Consoled	p. 70
The Story of a Good Brahmin	p. 72
Pot-Pourri	p. 75
An Indian Incident	p. 91
Lord Chesterfield's Ears	p. 93
Account of the Illness, Confession, Death and Apparition of the Jesuit Berthier	p. 113
Dialogue between a Savage and a Graduate	p. 123
Dialogue between Ariste and Acrotal	p. 129
The Education of Daughters	p. 133
Wives, Submit Yourselves to Your Husbands	p. 135
Dialogue between the Cock and the Hen	p. 139
Conversation between Lucian, Erasmus and Rabelais, in the Elysian Fields	p. 143
Notes	p. 148
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